Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats: Nevada's Pat McCarran and Colorado's Ed Johnson. Eleven Republicans: Bridges, McCarthy. Dirksen, Ohio's Bricker, Idaho's Dworshak and Welker, Arizona's Goldwater, Iowa's Hickenlooper, Nevada's Malone, South Dakota's Mundt, Kansas' Schoeppel...
Learns at Iowa...
...summer following his graduation from Exeter, Lee obtained a job working on the grounds crew at Iowa State Teachers College, one of the wrestling centers of the United States, where he "learned more in two months than in all the time in prep school." Though the team at Iowa State wasn't officially in training, wrestling is a 12 month sport there, and someone was always willing to teach or work out with...
...tied down the 123 division here his sophomore year by going undefeated in all competition and culminated his best year by winning the National AAU's held in Iowa. That summer he was selected for a team of five wrestlers which toured the islands of Japan. His record for the sojourn was five wins and three defeats. During this time he twice competed against the Olympic champion, Shohaci Ishii...
...Senator has always headed the committee. The first chairman, in the Republican 80th Congress, was Iowa's steady, hard-working Bourke B. Hickenlooper. In the Democratic 81st, Connecticut's yeasty Brien McMahon took over, to serve until he died last July. House members insist that there was an "understanding" that the chairmanship would alternate between the Senate and the House. (They let McMahon serve out of turn because he had sponsored the act establishing the committee.) Senate members don't seem to recall any such understanding...