Word: dodds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nader appear in Anderson's column in a favorable light, and some of those who do are surprising. His infrequent pieces on President Nixon have occasionally been sympathetic, and in a 1970 column he gave a plug to the anti-pornography campaign of, believe it or not, Senator Dodd...
...Anderson, while still working under Drew Pearson, who in 1966 exposed the misuse of campaign funds by Senator Thomas Dodd; the Connecticut Democrat was then censured by the Senate and defeated by the voters. Anderson was the first to report that California Republican George Murphy remained on the Technicolor Inc. payroll while serving in the Senate; Murphy lost the next election. The columnist also dug up many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling...
...Senator Thomas Dodd complained in open court: "Your Honor, it is difficult at best to argue against a woman attorney. But to argue against a woman attorney who is going to have a baby in ten days is downright unfair." Mrs. Murphy was capable as well as pregnant, and Dodd subsequently lost his libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson...
Died. Thomas J. Dodd, 64, the only U.S. Senator ever to be formally censured by his colleagues for financial misdeeds; of a heart attack; in Old Lyme, Conn. Before scandal ruined his career, the Connecticut Democrat had a reputation as a tough, responsible prosecutor and investigator. He served a brief tour as an FBI agent after earning a law degree at Yale, later helped convict Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. In 1958, Dodd won the first of his two Senate terms and soon zeroed in on subversives from his post on the Internal Security Subcommittee. He was a longtime champion...
Still, the letter, along with Scott's appeal for party loyalty, carried the day. The Senate voted 58 to 34 to override, four shy of the required two-thirds majority. Only six Democrats voted with Nixon, all Southerners except for Connecticut's Thomas Dodd. Nine liberal Republicans voted against the President...