Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's anti-crime bill before sending it on to the Senate. (Other changes would give the states nearly total control over how federal anti-crime grants would be spent, sharply curtailing the supervisory role of the Attorney General.) In the upper chamber, predicted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, the measure, which gives $75 million to local police in the first year, will be combined with the House-passed antiriot bill, which makes it a crime to cross state lines to foment riots. The result, promised Dirksen, "will be a humdinger...
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen wondered if there were not "a touch of red" in the riot scene. Said New Hampshire's Republican Repre sentative Louis Wyman: "Congress should take away federal benefits from any person convicted in any court of rioting...
...There's something in you that craves expression, and it must come out," said Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, 71, explaining his late blooming career as a Capitol Records star. The Senator's first two LP exercises in throbbing recitative, Gallant Men and Man Is Not Alone, have sold 600,000 copies, and he has now finished cutting a third, in which he intones such golden oldies as A Visit from St. Nicholas and Silent Night while a 22-man orchestra and ten-man choir make moan in the background. As for that craving, it often finds outlet...
...retains both his seat and his seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
...Medallion on him during a reception at Gracie Mansion. In between came a luncheon attended by 90 of Rodgers' friends and well-wishers, including cast members from many of his 23 shows. Letters and tape-recorded greetings showered in from the likes of Vice President Humphrey and Senator Dirksen, beatifying him as "a genius" and "America's answer to Mozart." Rodgers had just the right lyrics to cover it all. "I'm intimidated and I'm touched," he said, and sat down...