Word: dirksen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nations' Economic & Social Affairs Commission (TIME, June 1). Last week shadow-jumping accounted for another victim: Chicago Investment Banker David Lee Shillinglaw, in the running for an appointment to the U.N.'s Economic & Social Council. This time the jumpy one was a U.S. Senator, Illinois-Republican Everett Dirksen...
...personal expenses in repairing Star Dust. In 1951, after the Army Finance Center coldly informed him that it was "not authorized to develop claims involving accounts where the disbursing officer is in doubt as to the propriety of payment," George Ruckman took his case to Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen...
This made a natural opening for the measured tread of the man from Wisconsin: Joe McCarthy. Said he, in a quiet voice: "I think [Dirksen] is a fairly good security risk, and I think he should be allowed to see the letter, so that there may be no question about it." Knowland, flushed, shouted: "I do not know whether the Senator from Wisconsin is suggesting that my veracity should be questioned on the floor of the Senate . . . This is the first time that has happened ... I am serving as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, and I would not misrepresent...
...McCarthy said that there was no need for Knowland to "become so excited"; Everett Dirksen was quick to purr that he had "no desire to see the letter." But McCarthy needled on. Didn't Knowland think something should be done to check further on Gibson's position? Said an exasperated Knowland: "When a letter comes to the Senate from the Department of State, from a responsible officer of that department, I do not want to have to call in a handwriting expert to determine whether a forgery has been committed. If we have so destroyed confidence...
...Democrats: Nevada's Pat McCarran and Colorado's Ed Johnson. Eleven Republicans: Bridges, McCarthy. Dirksen, Ohio's Bricker, Idaho's Dworshak and Welker, Arizona's Goldwater, Iowa's Hickenlooper, Nevada's Malone, South Dakota's Mundt, Kansas' Schoeppel...