Word: jordan
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...Baker and who was sitting in on the hearings although not a member of the committee, was unwilling to let it go at that. His reluctance set off a shouting match. Williams said he had offered Committee Counsel Lennox McLendon, a back-home crony of Committee Chairman Everett Jordan's, Democrat of North Carolina, a "rather complete file" on various McCloskey contracts. McLendon, he said, had brushed the offer aside, saying he wasn't interested. Roared McLendon: "Senator, you're absolutely and unalterably untrue in your statement . . . You ought to at least tell the truth." Later Williams...
...major investigation. The committee usually oversees the Senate Restaurant, the Botanical Gardens, and the painting and statuary on the Hill. In committee, two major problems arose. Three of the Democratic members preferred to defer to a subcommittee headed by the less than energetic Carl Hayden. The chairman, B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) refused. Secondly, an impartial counsel had to be brought in from cutside the Senate. The committee seemed on the verge of an investigation of the ethical standards of members of the Senate establishment...
...committee ruled out of bounds any inquiry into Baker's financial dealings with Senators or other Senate employees. When a committee member asked that other Senators be called to testify, Chairman Jordan angrily retorted he was not "investigating Senators." Baker wielded enormous power within the Senate, yet his practices, from the standpoint of the committee, did not implicate any others who had dealt with him. The problem was that so many Senators had dealt with Baker in some way or other...
They are: Margaret E. deBeers, of Wolbach Hall and Washington, D.C. (Classics); Susan M. Billings, of Briggs Hall and Olmsted Falls, Ohio (Biology); Diana M. Cohart, of Briggs Halls and New Haven, Conn. (History and Literature); Priscilla Ellis, of Warner House and Cambridge (History); Maria A. Fleming, of Jordan J and Cleveland, Ohio (Romance Languages and Literatures...
...real issue was not the road at all, but water. Israel and the Arab states are contending for the Jordan River waters, and the Dan in turn supplies half the total volume of the Jordan. Biblically, the headwaters were granted to Israel by a divine deed registered in the Book of Judges. Historically, Israel's claims go back to a 1923 agreement when the headwaters were placed inside Palestine. The trouble is that the Syrian-Israel border was vaguely drawn and has been disputed ever since...