Word: dirksen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suicide Route." Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, who proposed a $250 million slash in economic aid for Western Europe, voiced one side of the argument: "We lift our voices in magnificent cliches about the danger from outside. Are we alert to the fact that America can die from suicide within? The suicide route is the fiscal route." Majority Leader McFarland voiced the other side: "Is it cheaper to arm European boys, or put all of our young manhood in uniform? The world is in a dangerous situation and we must see to it that our allies are strong economically...
...genuine home-grown and earthy aura. The Kansans are grateful for Eisenhower's support from Eastern industrialists and political leaders, but do not want to get Ike too thoroughly identified with them. They are even thinking of balancing the ticket by agreeing to Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen for Vice President, though Dirksen's senatorial toga often looks like the mantle of the Chicago Tribune...
...amendment that India may repay in raw materials, but if so must include monazite, a fissionable material. Opponents of the amendment pointed out that India has a law against exporting monazite, and besides the U.S. has substantial supplies of it. Unmoved, Illinois' Republican Lawyer-Senator Everett Dirksen cried: "Always get your fee while the tears...
...include the eastern internationalists in the G.O.P (generally more interested in Europe than Asia), such forthright Republicans as California's Bill Knowland (who favors the decisive course in both Asia and Europe) and such high & dry isolationists as Indiana's Homer Capehart and Illinois' Everett Dirksen (who frequently criticize U.S. involvement in either Korea or Europe), some changes had to be made fast. Out from Martin's office went the new word: forget impeachment talk for the time being, stop talking about the Formosa question, and concentrate on a demand that MacArthur come back and report...
Tell the People. The G.O.P.'s best speechmakers fanned out across the nation. Bob Taft talked of the new "appeasement." Said he: "It would be hard to deliberately invent a more disastrous series of policy moves than this Administration has adopted during the past 18 months." Dirksen saw MacArthur's firing as a victory for Great Britain, and the State Department as "a branch of Downing Street." Far out in right field, Joe McCarthy announced in Milwaukee that the recall was "a Communist victory won with the aid of bourbon and Benedictine." Of Harry Truman he said...