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Trying to win a coat for his bride-to-be on his second question during Friday's show, Bowman could not name the West Virginia senator who died recently, Harley M. Kilgore. However, the couple is eligible to appear again today as the program went off the air before Bowman's answer-time had elapsed...
...Laird, adopted him. He attended Greenbrier Military School, King College in Bristol, Tenn., and West Virginia University, where he received a law degree in 1944 and made friends with a fellow student, Bill Marland. Marland, now 37 and governor of West Virginia. chose Laird to fill in after Senator Harley M. Kilgore died last month...
...Senate voted, 76-19, to override Franklin Delano Roosevelt's veto of the soldier bonus bill. The one vacancy in the Senate at that time was caused by the assassination of Louisiana Democrat Huey Long; the present vacancy was caused by the death of West Virginia Democrat Harley Kilgore...
...nominations to the federal courts (including the Supreme Court) and on all Justice Department positions requiring Senate confirmation. It has jurisdiction over all legislation on immigration and citizenship. It studies all amendments proposed to the U.S. Constitution. It handles civil rights matters. Last week, after the death of Chairman Harley Kilgore, the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee went to a man considered by many to be the nation's most dangerous demagogue: Mississippi's racist Senator James Eastland...
...Died. Harley Martin Kilgore, 63, senior Democratic Senator from West Virginia, chairman since last year of the Senate Judiciary Committee; of a brain hemorrhage; in Bethesda, Md. A workhorse New and Fair Dealer, Kilgore sponsored measures favoring tighter monopoly controls, more social security coverage, looser immigration laws, was the only Senator from his state to be elected to three consecutive terms...