Word: ervine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four senators, all elected to another term, are Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R, Mass.), Paul H. Douglas '16 (D, III.), Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. '21 (D, N. Car.), and Theodore F. Green, Law '92 (D, R.I.). John F. Kennedy '40 (D, Mass.), still has four more years in the Senate, making a total of five alumni in the upper house...
...North Carolina Democrat Samuel J. Ervin Jr., 58, twice-wounded veteran of World War I, a lawyer and former associate justice of his state's Supreme Court, who, in his 14 weeks as a Senator, has already reaped some criticism at home for voting too much like a Republican...
...seem to escape the spell of the cold eye. At one point he was arguing that the committee should accept in evidence the notorious 2¼ page summary of an FBI document (which Joe had produced at the Army-McCarthy hearing-TIME, May 17). North Carolina's Sam Ervin interrupted him in midsentence. "May I finish, please?" McCarthy asked Chairman Watkins. Watkins replied bluntly: "You may when Senator Ervin has stated his position." "O.K.," snapped...
Except for Case, every member is from an area where McCarthy is not the burning issue he is in the East and upper Midwest. All of the Senators are able and sin gularly individualistic. Stennis and Ervin have both had experience as judges...
...Ervin, appointed only last June to fill the vacancy left by the death of Clyde Hoey, is a graduate of Harvard Law School, but does not know many other graduates because he went through the famed school "backwards." Ervin explained that he was admitted to the North Carolina bar before he decided to go to Harvard. He was in love with a North Carolina girl named Margaret Bell and was afraid a long absence might ruin his romance, so he elected to take only the third-year course. He finished the course, found that Margaret was still true, and began...