Word: dakotas
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...seven weeks since the President vetoed the gas bill because of an "arrogant" attempt at lobbying, a Senate Select Committee has been investigating the celebrated $2,500 "campaign contribution" to South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case (TIME, Feb. 20). Chaired by Georgia's painstaking Walter George, the committee has listened to 22 witnesses, taken 849 pages of testimony, spent $10,000-all the while following meticulously the Senate's instructions to see and hear no evil other than that bearing on the Case case. Last week the committee delivered itself of a weighty verdict that advanced...
Here and there the George committee had a hard word to say about the individuals concerned. For example, the Superior Oil Co. of California's $1,000-a-month Lobbyist John Neff "acted with consummate indiscretion in making his promiscuous contacts" in Washington, South Dakota, Iowa and Montana. On one occasion, "while Mr. Neff succeeded in not violating any law here, he appears to have had every intention to do so." Superior Oil's President Howard B. Keck was not responsible for the specifics, but he showed "remarkable laxity" in delegating the expenditure of his "personal funds...
After wearing a Republican label for 40 years while thinking and acting more like a Democratic organization, North Dakota's Nonpartisan League last week officially took itself into the Democratic fold. Most active members of the N.P.L., closely aligned with the left-of-center National Farmers Union, will be more comfortable as Democrats. But the shift will cause real trouble for some of the league's leading lights who were elected to the office when the N.P.L. controlled North Dakota's G.O.P. organization. Most trou bled : North Dakota's cantankerous, caterwauling U.S. Senator William Langer...
Replacing Edmund Mansure, who resigned under fire (TIME, Feb. 20), South Dakota-born Franklin Floete, 66, promptly let it be known that GSA is in for some changes. He snorted with disgust upon entering his dark, cavernous office, modeled after the hall of an English manor house, where Albert B. Fall once sat as Harding's Interior Secretary and where Harold Ickes ruled before working himself a new building. "You don't call this an office," snapped Floete. "I'm going down the hall a few doors, where there is a human-sized office...
Then, while the controversial natural gas bill was under heated debate on the floor of the Senate, South Dakota Senator Francis Case revealed that an oil company's agent had contributed $2,500 to his campaign fund in the hope that Case would respond with quid...