Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council did not confine itself entirely to College matters, but also expressed undergraduate feeling to the public. Its action in such affairs was characterized by promptness and decisiveness. When AFROTC candidates were denied their commissions and when the government threatened a reduction in the Fulbright program, the Council quickly spoke...
Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. W. FULBRIGHT, in the biweekly Reporter: THE President wishes to develop a bipartisan foreign policy in the Eighty-Fourth Congress. Without being unduly partisan, I feel that this desire for bipartisanship, although welcome, is a bit sudden. It is not easy, nor would it be wise, for Democrats to forget the appalling degree of venom shown by the Republicans during the campaign. Bipartisanship in foreign policy requires the exercise of restraint in a field where demagogy is inviting and comes easy. It is an ancient practice and a large temptation to exploit people...
...public men on all sides of any question get shocking letters-and no cause can be judged by the virulence of its letter writers. Nevertheless, Arkansas Democratic Senator William Fulbright had a point to make last week about the "character of what has come to be known as McCarthyism." To illustrate his point, Fulbright inserted in the Congressional Record some letters he has received from followers of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Excerpts...
From Peter Murphy, Buffalo: "A fine dirty red rat are you . . . Who were the birds that voted not to allow Senator McCarthy time off to recover from his illness? I'll tell you: it was Red loving Fulbright and the rotten Jew, Herbert Lehman, the pal of Hiss...
...think," said Fulbright of the letters, "they evidence a great sickness among our people." As he read, the Senate sat in an embarrassed silence broken only by a few tense titters...