Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself, news of the Taft offer buzzed across the long-distance grapevine and irked even some of Taft's close friends. Knowland, 44, ranks 17th on the Republican seniority list. Why, asked the G.O.P. seniors, should Knowland be catapulted into the policy chairmanship over such venerable heads as Colorado's Eugene Millikin, ranked eighth, or Nebraska's Hugh Butler, fifth? There was no doubt that Bob Taft could corral enough votes to get the job if he wanted to fight for it. In the interests of party harmony, however, the odds grew that the next Senate majority...
...Interior, a Westerner was almost inevitable since Interior's most important sphere of action is in the West (power development, conservation, etc.). An early possibility was Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado. Eisenhower advisers remembered the feud between Colorado and Arizona and California over division of the Colorado River water, advised against a Colorado man. Ike chose Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, whom he had met during his campaign in the Northwest and liked for his independence and common sense...
Finance. Eugene Millikin of Colorado, one of the Senate's ablest legislators and a tax expert...
...SECRETARY OF INTERIOR: 1) Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, a close Ike friend; 2) Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie...
...Colorado: Dan Thornton...