Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petition, circulated by Vern Countryman, professor of Law, is part of a campaign by the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. The campaign began in January, shortly after Congress passed the "Dirksen Amendments" to the McCarran Act. Countryman, who is vice-chairman of the Committee's New England Region, collected 214 signatures from law professors across the country...
...SACB has been largely inactive for the last five years, since the courts threw out most of the penalties which the McCarran Act holds for Communist organizations. But the "Dirksen Amendments" have given the Act a new set of teeth...
...raised at testimonial dinners and other such occasions (the "Dodd amendment"). For the first time, the murky area where campaign funds, office and personal expenses meld would be clearly defined and strictly regulated. But general disclosure of every Senator's financial holdings (which would, insisted Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, make Senators "second-class citizens") was not suggested. The code does propose that Senators file copies of their income tax returns with the committee-though in fact the committee already has authority to demand tax returns of any Senator. It sanctions acceptance by Senators of contributions to run their campaigns...
...toughest fight was prompted by Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who proposed to exempt from the open-housing provision certain privately owned one-family units. Several Republican conservatives, notably South Dakota's Karl Mundt, had demanded the Baker amendment as a condition for agreeing to cloture. By a 48-to-43 vote, the Baker amendment was killed...
Died. Benjamin Harrison Dirksen, 73, the Senator's older brother, who stayed in Illinois with Ev's twin brother, Thomas, to help run the family bakery; of a heart attack; in Pekin...