Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P.'s most persistent orator). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges ran the campaign in the cloakroom. Operator Bridges, an expert in dispensing political favors, collected some of his many I.O.U.s to keep Republicans in line. Some farm Senators, e.g., Idaho's Herman Welker, North Dakota's Milton Young and South Dakota's Francis Case, all up for re-election next year, seemed to be wavering toward a tax cut, until Bridges urged them back. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy was itching for a chance to plant a dirk in the Administration...
When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...
...Bulls & a Bank Roll. While the final vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their...
...G.O.P. move came hard on the heels of a Democratic decision to convene again in Chicago, starting either on July 23 or Aug. 13, 1956. The August dates for both parties hinge on whether the election laws of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, South Dakota and Iowa, requiring early certification of presidential candidates, can be amended (all five states have indicated that the necessary changes will be made...
...when the SEATO treaty came up before the U.S. Senate, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley declared that the Asian signatories† "have uttered a cry of faith in their own destiny, and a defiant proclamation of their own conviction in the eternal worth of the individual man." But North Dakota's Bill Langer cried: "If such a treaty had been in force among the nations of Europe at the time of the Revolutionary War, the U.S. would still belong to Great Britain." This seemed to prove that everybody except Langer has learned some lessons from George III. The vote...