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...committeeman, but flushed with assurance by virtue of his standing as a re-elected Republican, was Representative Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. "You're just salving your own consciences here this morning," roared he. "I thoroughly disagree with all the self-admiration that has been expressed here. . . . We haven't got even enough members of Congress to force a roll call. And still we listen to rhetorical pap . . . like 'the American way of life...
...What would you do?" cried an indignant member. Congressman Dirksen did not reply...
Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know...
Last week the House subcommittee which made the Chicago investigation failed to recommend impeachment of the three judges. It accused them of being guilty of "almost criminal negligence," left impeachment to others to decide. Of the many who did not relish making such a decision one was Representative Everett Dirksen. Said this Illinois Republican...
...regarded by unbiased observers so far as legislative ability goes. . . . Your thoro unbiased and courageous reports on national affairs and on individuals lead me to ask whether you can and do furnish to your readers . . . a report on the record of any particular member of Congress. . . . EVERETT M. DIRKSEN...