Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Dakota's Senator Mundt, smilingly bemoaning his failure to wear his blue "television shirt," offered similar testimony about a talk he had with Adams alone on Jan. 22. Mundt said that he had been uneasy about the "juxtaposition" in which Adams placed the loyalty board plea and the Cohn-Schine affair. Mundt said that he had thought the topics were "entirely unrelated." Michigan's Senator Potter testified along the same lines about a conversation with Deputy Army Counselor Lewis Berry...
...Conference Chairman Eugene Millikin and House Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Richard Simpson. Leader of the unsuccessful fight against the St. Lawrence Seaway was Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler, and one of his most active allies was Senate Assistant Majority Leader Leverett Saltonstall, an Eisenhower Republican. North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton Young heads the effort to scuttle the Eisenhower farm program. Such Republicans as Nevada's Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Senator William Langer vote against the Administration as a matter of course. The President was able to muster only 14 Republican...
...Shelved, 50-42, Administration-sponsored amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act. Arrayed against the bill were 46 Democrats. Wayne Morse and three Republicans (Nevada's saturnine George Malone, both North Dakota Senators-pro-laborite William Langer and anti-laborite Milton Young). The vote was a blow to the Eisenhower legislative program. But it also exposed Democrats to the charge of voting in favor of a Taft-Hartley status...
Lawyer Adams graduated from the University of South Dakota Law School ('35), but never went into private practice. Commissioned an Army First Lieutenant soon after Pearl Harbor, Adams fought in North Africa and Europe, earned a Bronze Star. After the war, he became national director of the Young Republicans, then clerk of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and in 1949 moved to the Pentagon...
Karl Earl Mundt, 53, acting committee chairman, South Dakota's senior Senator, once before was an acting chairman during a dramatic episode: in 1948, when the pumpkin film in the Alger Hiss case was disclosed, he was head of the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator-elect, having won his promotion with the help of the Hiss case. Mundt. who was a teacher for 13 years, has a schoolteacher's patient manner. Now, torn between his allegiance to the Administration and his friendship for McCarthy, Karl Mundt obviously needs all his patience. In his opening remarks last...