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An island of Corn Belt Democratic strength (it was the only non-Southern state to go against Dwight Eisenhower in 1956), Missouri has ten Democratic Representatives, only one Republican. Second District (St. Louis) Republican Incumbent Thomas Curtis is in real trouble against Lawyer James L. Sullivan, former chief counsel for...
"One of the most irresponsible pieces of serious legislation reported by a committee to the Senate since I have been a member," said Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. Not so, retorted South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin Johnston: It is a landmark defense against a...
Both Hennings and Johnston were talking about a bill originally authored by Indiana's Republican Senator William Jenner, rewritten almost completely by Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler, and approved last week-without hearings-by a 10-to-5 vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Aimed at...
That word came from Sen. Hennings (D-Mo.), one of a sizable group invited to the White House from the Capitol to hear Eisenhower report on his Bermuda conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain.
This was back-home, facts-of-life talk from a political expert to an audience of political experts-and it had its effect. Such was the threat that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had letters fired off to the Senate warning that the Russell substitute would "destroy the value...