Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle. Democratic Senators began ducking into hiding places whenever Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson came into sight. Majority Leader William Knowland found he had almost no names left after he crossed off those of G.O.P. Senators who are openly for or against McCarthy. Knowland and Johnson hoped to get Colorado's Eugene Millikin and Georgia...
Walter George, among the most respected men in the Senate, to serve. Both begged off. Knowland finally named Utah's Arthur Watkins, Kansas' Frank Carlson and South Dakota's Francis Case. Johnson named Colorado's Edwin Johnson, Mississippi's John Stennis and North Carolina's Samuel J. Ervin...
...McCarthy was listening to other Senators quarrel over the surface glints and somber depths of his own, strange personality, the people whose real business it is to catch Communists quietly went on catching Communists. On a street corner in Denver, FBI agents collared four big wheels of the Colorado and Utah machines. A fifth was picked up at a Denver airport, a sixth in Pueblo, and a seventh, who had underground contacts with the Colorado group, was nabbed in Los Angeles. Last week's coups brought the total of arrests under the Smith Act (conspiracy to advocate the overthrow...
Biggest fish in the Colorado haul was New York City-born Arthur Bary, 42 (real name: Diamantis Daramparis), who was carrying $1,872.67 in cash when he was seized. J. Edgar Hoover described Bary as "one of the party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders." Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest...
Pulling another rider out of the brimming hopper, the filibusterers won the next skirmish. Colorado Democrat Edwin Johnson pressed for a vote on a rider that would enable the AEC to build nuclear reactors for commercial power production. It carried...