Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others receiving plaques were Tino Bertolino of Boston College; Don Johnson, Northeastern; Lou Lovely, Boston University; Jim Stehlin, Brandeis; and Norm Wright, Tufts...
...Papers of Sir William Johnson Slingerlands...
...Keef's restless desire to sit on the prestige-weighted Foreign Relations Committee. Instead, the lone Foreign Relations opening was awarded to Massachusetts' able young (39) Jack Kennedy, narrowly beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere of Senate partisan activity, Columnist Fleeson saw the committee appointments as "the opening gun of an effort to put across a Johnson-Kennedy ticket at the Democratic National Convention...
...Kennedy's assignment could be charged off as a 1960 political gambit, it could also be explained by a ruling handed down four years ago when Lyndon Johnson assumed floor leadership. Johnson's dictum: every Democrat should sit on at least one committee of his choice; even first-termers, wherever possible, should have an interesting committee assignment. Estes Kefauver already ranked high on not one but two prime committees, i.e., second Democrat on Judiciary, fourth on Armed Services. On the other hand, Kennedy had served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under...
...Impending Defeat. Beyond civil rights and its reefs, there waits the prospect of a second losing battle for the South. Stung by "Judge" Nixon's interpretation. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Knowland last week co-sponsored a bill to 1) amend the provision of Rule XXII that requires a vote of two-thirds of all Senators (64 votes) to close debate, so that cloture can be applied by two-thirds of the Senators present; 2) abolish the provision of XXII that guarantees the right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change...