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Committee Chairman Arthur Watkins had been unable to persuade any nationally prominent lawyer to serve as committee counsel. South Dakota's Senator Francis Case suggested that Watkins look for a former Congressman who would understand the committee system. Case had no one in mind, but he later recalled a five-minute speech he had heard while serving in the House in 1948. He could not even remember the speaker's name, only that he was a Pennsylvania Republican who had impressed both sides of the aisle during debate on Marshall Plan aid. Case broke out a directory...
Final Tally. Standing inflexibly against flexibility was a small band of Republican irresponsibles, including North Dakota's William Langer and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. When the manna-hunters' sniping subsided, the Senate passed and sent to conference with the House the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1954. The final Senate tally: 62-28. Voting "aye" were 44 Republicans, 18 Democrats. Voting "nay" were Wayne Morse, 24 Democrats and three Republicans. The three: Minnesota's Ed Thye, Bill Langer and Joe McCarthy...
Walter George, among the most respected men in the Senate, to serve. Both begged off. Knowland finally named Utah's Arthur Watkins, Kansas' Frank Carlson and South Dakota's Francis Case. Johnson named Colorado's Edwin Johnson, Mississippi's John Stennis and North Carolina's Samuel J. Ervin...
After the Senate voted to send the Flanders resolution to a special bipartisan committee, South Dakota's Karl Mundt spoke for himself and the other Senators who sat through the bitter Army-McCarthy hearings last spring. "They can't take us," said Mundt. "We were drafted for the last...
...North Dakota's windy old William Langer asked West Virginia's aging (79) Democrat Matthew Neely: "Is President Eisenhower a Republican or a Democrat?" Replied Neely mischievously, "Why ask me? It took him 62 years to find that out. While we are on that point ... it took him over 60 years to find out that he could join a church...