Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from $50,000 per farmer to $50,000 per crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South Dakota Republican Francis Case casually made a point of order: Wasn't this provision circumventing the Appropriations Committee...
Said Ohio's burly Frank Lausche, with a nod to Arkansan Bill Fulbright, committee chairman, and sworn enemy of noncareer diplomats: "I'm sure you are the type of man that lies dear and close to the heart of what Senator Fulbright feels should be a good ambassador." Added Fulbright genially: "I think it will be a good experience...
...Fulbright v. Reid...
...your June 1 article on Senator Fulbright and Ogden Reid, it appears that the main object of the piece was to have an excuse to indulge in name-calling. To save me, I could not find anything improper in the questions the Senator asked the aspiring young man. And, pray tell, what did all this have to do with segregation...
Bravo to you for exposing and unfrocking Segregationist Fulbright. He remained in Europe while the Little Rock episode raged, being so veddy, veddy busy bringing "democracy" overseas...