Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court of Appeals bench in Chicago. The Department of Justice pointed out to him that the Constitution prohibits a man from stepping directly from the U.S. Senate to the federal bench. From then on Jenner sulked, and refused even to talk to his fellow Indiana Senator, Republican Homer Capehart, about any other nominee for the post. "Believe it or not," Capehart told a friend, "the senior Senator from Indiana can't get an appointment with the junior Senator...
...Capehart finally got his appointment only to have Jenner berate him violently for supporting the Eisenhower program. "I've never taken so much abuse in my life," Capehart later confessed. "I'm afraid one of the 96 Senators is nuts." By that time Jenner was calling Capehart, who himself has Grade A credentials in the right-of-center division of the G.O.P., a "New Deal sonofabitch...
...Onetime (1940-45) Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the Indiana seat in the U.S. Senate now held by Republican Homer Capehart...
...Most conspicuous on the list, except for Peron himself* and his late wife Eva, was Tycoon Jorge Antonio, 38, who rose in the last decade from a hospital orderly to the possessor of a fortune reported to total $215 million (rolled up in Mercedes-Benz cars, Capehart radios and phonographs, grains, publishing, radio...
...points. Instead of easing up, Fulbright shifted his attack, e.g., he sharply questioned General Motors President Harlow Curtice about competition in the auto industry, suggested that G.M. could cut prices if it wanted to. His line of questioning soon drew a rebuke from Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who flatly accused Fulbright of having no intention "to investigate the stock market, but to harass . . . business." When Fulbright's committee brought out its report two months later, he conceded that he had found no major abuses on the stock exchanges...