Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What this country needs is men in Washington who will put up a better plan than Dulles or shut up until they have something constructive to say. Too bad we didn't get some statesmen when Senators Russell, Fulbright, Humphrey and Morse were elected...
...some 315 alumni scattered all over the country who serve as "alumni counsellors" to all students who would like to personally speak to someone established in a career; and there is much information concerning any graduate scholarships a student might wish to try for. (Crooks himself handles the Fulbright scholarships...
...private war in defense of Dulles was no idle campaign. Like everyone else in Washington, he was well aware that Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Wayne Morse were heading up a group of Democratic liberals pledged to bring down Dulles (TIME, Feb. 4). What concerned Ike more was that he was now getting little help from such responsibles as Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield, who have been alienated by the extravagances of Dulles' hard-sell tactics as he pushed for speedy action...
Eventually Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson worked out an agreement acceptable to the Fulbright boys and the Republican leadership whereby the Senate would probe Middle East policy since Jan. 1, 1946-but only after action had been taken on the President's urgent requests for authority...
...pirouetting. "I don't think we've covered much new ground," sighed one State Department official wearily after Secretary of State Dulles finished another day of fending off his critics on the 30-man combined Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. At one point Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, who had put the stock market into a tail spin by his hazy handling of the 1955 financial hearings, even wanted to let the Eisenhower doctrine and the crisis go hang while he investigated U.S. Middle East policy all the way back...