Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watkins tossed a copy of the corrected report on McCarthy's desk, McCarthy whined that he now had to go through 72 pages. "The Senator from Utah has told me that he knows what these errors are," he complained. "Why does he not mark them for me?" South Dakota's mild-mannered Republican Senator Francis Case, a censure committee member, scurried over to Joe's desk, riffled through the pages and slapped the report down so hard that papers went flying. "It's a marked copy," he snorted...
...Democratic Representative Francis Walter, scheduled to be chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, announced last week that he would seek to have that committee abolished. The Senate Judiciary Committee, once the most influential committee of Congress, goes from the frying pan to the fire -from North Dakota's drafty William Langer to West Virginia's drafty Harley Kilgore. Few revisions in labor-management law are likely to come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little...
Republicans re-elected six Senators. Among the six: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, the Senate's president pro tempore, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who swamped Democrat Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's banjo-playing running mate on 1948's Progressive ticket...
...good morals" to the majority of Senate members may be highly inflammatory to the public. A censure motion against William Langer of North Dakota for obstructing Senate business and a move to refuse seating to the vituperative Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi were both doomed to failure. The Republicans who insisted that Bilbo not be seated violated an old Senate tradition: that Senators whose credentials are in question be allowed to take their seats, pending a report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. In Bilbo's case the unprecedented tactics were necessary because Southern Democrats who opposed Bilbo...
...Senate has 49 Republicans and 47 Democrats (including Wayne Morse). Thirty-seven places are up for election on Nov. 2, with 13 Southern Democrats certain to win and five G.O.P. seats-two in New Hampshire, one each in Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota-almost sure to stay Republican. There are 19 contests in which the outcome is more or less in doubt...