Word: dirksen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Dakotan Langer seemed to be dragging his feet on other proposals, among them Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen's 25% limitation on income-tax rates and Vermont Republican Ralph Flanders' measure to make the Constitution acknowledge "the authority and law of Jesus Christ...
...third charge that Adams suffered the heaviest damage. In the midst of his crossexamination, a remarkable transformation took place: three of the men who were sitting as judges in the hearings-Republican Committee Members Dirksen, Mundt and Potter-suddenly became witnesses...
Jenkins was about to go to court in a case involving a barking dog* when he was called to Washington to handle the case involving Joe McCarthy. An old acquaintance, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, had suggested him for the job. After the call came, Ray broke the news to Partners Erby and Aubrey Jenkins (brothers, but no kin to Ray) with the preface: "The most fantastic thing has happened...
...Huntsville, Dirksen related later, "I looked down the road a bit and wondered, 'Where do we go from here?' I was planting shrubbery . . . and his name popped into my mind." The name was that of Knoxville Lawyer Ray H. (for Howard) Jenkins, who in 1940 had managed the unsuccessful senatorial campaign of Darek's other grandfather, Republican Congressman Howard Baker...
...visits to Tennessee during the last four years, Dirksen had met Jenkins, whom he described as "just about the best trial lawyer in East Tennessee." Big (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), rawboned Lawyer Jenkins was a Taft Republican in 1952. But at the G.O.P. Convention, Jenkins urged the Taft-controlled Tennessee delegation to switch to Ike. "Let's get behind somebody who can win," he pleaded. Last week's check of Jenkins' record by newsmen and the committee seemed to bear out his statement that he has never publicly expressed opinions about McCarthy...