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Another lame duck from the old 81st Congress combed the birdshot from his feathers last week and limped back into action. South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney, who lost his Senate seat to Isolationist Francis Case in a primary election last spring, won his reward for loyal support of Administration defense programs on the Armed Services Committee. The reward: a presidential appointment to fill out the remaining 22 months of a vacant seat on the Civil Aeronautics Board. Salary: $15,000 a year...
Perry, who retired in 1930 after 23 years at the University, was one member of the famed literature-teaching which also included Charles Townsend Copeland '82. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory emeritus and the late George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English...
...80th Congress Senator Chan Gurney (R.S.D.) introduced legislation to permit federal employees to take leave of absence for research and study with the government paying for their tuition...
...onetime country editor, left his duties in Washington, covered the state in a gas-station-and-drugstore campaign. Case was for economy first, last & always-including cuts in foreign aid and military preparedness. To Case's invitation to argue it out before the voters, Gurney coolly replied that he was busy...
...weeks before election, Gurney went to South Dakota. By then it was too late. Underdog Case won, 58,000 to 43,000. Commented Vermont's Senator George Aiken: "It made some of those who are up for re-election realize they had better go back home to do some politicking...