Word: fulbrighter
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...wanted to send to London-former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. But the debate had only begun. As the names of Harry Truman's five alternate delegates were read, Arkansas' liberal Democrat J. William Fulbright got up with a glitter...
President Conant, who is also Chairman of the National Defense Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, was asked by Senator Fulbright how far ahead of Russia is the United States in research on the bomb. "I'd put the figure at five to fifteen years," he said...
Later he teamed with Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor against Maryland's Millard Tydings and Arkansas' J. William Fulbright at pitching horseshoes. The Missouri southpaw's side lost, 20-to-21. A seaplane brought official papers for the President. He sat under a poplar tree, read them, signed some. Then he went inside. There was a poker game in full blast and three tables of continuous bridge...
...world manifestly run by the Big Powers, the loss of this tattered privilege might have been just another dose of "reality" if it had been judiciously administered. Cried Arkansas' James W. Fulbright, who had just made an eloquent plea for world cooperation in the U.S. Senate: "Why in the world couldn't they have announced it at the same time as they announced the other results of Yalta? I don't like this kind of secret dealing...
Also tied up by the Senate committee were four proposals to limit the President and Vice President to one term; others to abolish the closed shop, to reorganize the Cabinet. So far as the House was concerned, all these could wait, but the Fulbright resolution was something else again. If it could not be submitted to the voters, it was at least going to get some public discussion...