Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Senate met for its third day of debate on Ralph Flanders' motion to censure* McCarthy, Joe's enemies were well aware that a move was afoot to send the motion to committee. Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...
Idaho's Republican Herman Welker, one of Joe's most loyal pals, agreed with Liberals Monroney and Fulbright that a censure vote should be taken quickly, but Welker's vote would be for Joe. Said Welker: "... I am going to stand up and hit a lick for America." Welker could see no profit in restraining Joe's methods, "under a nicey-nicey code of ethics." Welker was especially incensed at Flanders' charge that McCarthy had contempt for his fellow men. Roared Welker: "No one can tell me that Irishman would not give the shirt...
SENATOR JAMES WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, Democrat of Arkansas, 49, onetime Rhodes scholar, author of the Fulbright (exchange scholarships) bill, and father of the 1943 Fulbright resolution, which committed the U.S. to the incipient U.N. organization...
Increasing Impatience. After half an hour of back-and-forth before the committee, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright peered at "Beedle" Smith and asked: "Look here, General, speaking as an official of the Republican Administration, which do you prefer, the Richards amendment or this?" With soldierly precision Smith replied: "There just isn't any question about it. We prefer the Richards amendment...
Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...