Word: hruska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juicy committee assignment here, collecting an IOU there. Bridges knew just what Dirksen's margin would be (20-14) well before caucus time. By then he had another problem: such G.O.P. conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered the liberals as a compromise...
...Jenner, Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, Nevada's George W. Malone, North Dakota's Milton R. Young, Ohio's John W. Bricker, and Wyoming's Frank A. Barrett. Paired against the bill: Arizona's Barry M. Goldwater, Nebraska's Roman L. Hruska, North Dakota's William Langer...
...Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's Wiley) who had voted for flexible supports on the other basic crops, ran for cover and plumped for rigid props under wheat. Five Senators (Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Neely...
...Donald R. Ross, U.S. attorney for Nebraska, spent eight days on the Justice Department griddle in Washington, returned to Omaha, resigned. Ross had arranged interviews for Lobbyist Neff with Nebraska's Republican Senators Carl Curtis (a member of Gore's subcommittee) and Roman Hruska, both of whom voted for the gas bill...
Nebraska: Republicans Carl Thomas Curtis, 49, and Roman Lee Hruska, 50, had little trouble winning as the state's two Senators. A veteran of 16 years in the House, Curtis is a lackluster conservative. First-Term Congressman Hruska is expected to lend strong, thoughtful support to the Eisenhower program...