Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crux of the Republican policy is that only where local interests cannot assure development of natural resources should the Federal Government step in. For example, the Administration is pushing two huge projects, which fall under this heading: development of the Upper Colorado Basin and the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana...
Last spring President Eisenhower sent three conservative governors, Colorado's Dan Thornton. Texas' Allan Shivers and Pennsylvania's John Fine, on a fact-finding mission to Japan and Korea. Last week the three governors presented their report to the President. It carried a startling recommendation: Japan, in order to resist the siren call of Communism, must trade with the Chinese Communists...
...task of doing something for the "little fellow" fell to Colorado's Gene Millikin. whose Finance Committee had reported out the revision bill. The next morning Millikin padded into the Senate, got the attention of the chair, asked the clerk to read a spanking new amendment his staff had pieced together overnight. (It would give a $20 tax credit to every individual not benefiting from other provisions of the bill.) Tennessee's Albert Gore wanted to know why Millikin had been so late in introducing his amendment. What was the motivation? Blandly, Millikin made his reply: "The motivation...
...amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...
...cantankerous Texan of 49, made a comfortable living operating two Gulf coast shrimp boats. A stern, touchy man, he insisted that people address him by his World War II title, captain. Ten years ago Captain Hord and his wife began to spend summers near Creede (pop. 503), in southwestern Colorado. Last year they bought a homesite and built a luxurious chink-log cabin with a big living room, two bedrooms, picture window and a two-car garage...