Word: humphrey
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WASHINGTON--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was reported by Senate sources yesterday to have told Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) that Russia has an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of firing a warhead 8,694 miles...
...Humphrey himself told reporters he passed on to Eisenhower a confidential message from the Soviet Premier dealing with Russian nuclear explositions of a very substantial size...
...World War II, when he worked as a mobilizer for Donald Nelson, persuaded dozens of top businessmen to take Washington jobs, including "Electric Charlie" Wilson, G. Keith Funston and Ralph Cordiner, on his plea that "Government service is the highest form of citizenship." Since then, Weinberg has nudged George Humphrey, Neil McElroy and many others into Government service. He has achieved the status of a de luxe one-man employment agency. "There is a guy waiting outside right now," he told a recent visitor, "who is president of a multimillion-dollar company. He's thinking of leaving, and wants...
...senators will also go to Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, or wherever the quadrennial spectacle is staged, holding their state delegations under tight control. Humphrey's engineering of the GOP collapse in Minnesota pretty well assures him a united delegation. The governor, Orville Freeman, is his boy; and the pro-Kefauver faction which split Minnesota's votes in 1956 has been pretty well extinguished. Symington holds Missouri, Kennedy can count on New England, and Gore, Kefauver to the contrary notwithstanding, controls Tennessee. Lyndon Johnson certainly doesn't have to worry about Texas, and probably not very much about the rest...
...Humphrey, Javits & Co. would like nothing better than a cloture rule allowing the Senate to cut off debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in Rule XXII is probably inevitable, aim at holding it to a near-meaningless minimum. From the battle that will begin next Jan. 7 between those two positions may come a rule allowing Senators to talk lengthily-but not forever...