Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate could hardly have been more serene. Debate on the natural-gas bill (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) was nearing an end, the opposition was wheezing its last, the votes to pass the bill seemed well in hand. When South Dakota's comma-conscious Republican Senator Francis Case rose to speak, it was the signal for other Senators to burrow deeper into their newspapers or strike up desultory conversation with their neighbors. But by the time Francis Case sat down, he had shaken the Senate to its foundations...
...been favorably inclined toward the gas bill, Case related, but he had decided finally to vote against it. His reason: he had received $2,500 as a "campaign contribution" from a non-South Dakota lawyer, a stranger to Case, who was interested in passage of the gas bill. Case refused to name the lawyer, was vague about other details, but was clear in his implication of vote-buying by gas producers...
Case's opening statement rambled from South Dakota weather (blustery) to his family remedy for sinus headaches (a nasal jelly). But there were some hard facts. On Jan. 25. said Case, he received word from South Dakota that a Nebraska lawyer named John Neff had contributed $2,500 to his campaign. Since Case had never received more than $300 in a single contribution, the news "sort of took my breath away." The donation was especially puzzling because Neff's name "did not mean anything to me." Case therefore checked around, learned that Neff had been asking around about...
...Case had leaped to some pretty accurate conclusions was indicated when Lawyer John Neff was called as a witness. Neff identified himself as a $12,000-a-year lobbyist for California's Superior Oil Co., which also produces natural gas. Last fall, said Neff, he went to South Dakota to scout Case's views on the gas bill, wound up talking to the business manager of the Argus Leader, Ernest J. Kahler. Neff inquired if Case needed campaign funds. Kahler said he might. Neff asked Kahler to find out how Case stood on the gas bill. Kahler subsequently...
...went to the Shoreham Hotel, where he talked to Elmer Patman, an attorney for Superior Oil, and recommended the contribution to Case. Patman peeled off $2,500 from a "personal" fund, which he handled for Superior's President Howard Keck of Los Angeles. Later, Neff flew to South Dakota and turned 25 old $100 bills over to Kahler for delivery to the Senator's campaign fund...