Word: kefauveritis
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The extremity of adult reaction against the Presley phenomena has made impartial judgement of Elvis' singing almost impossible. "Big El" has become more intellectually respectable in recent months as Estes Kefauver, Charles Laughton, Burl Ives, and the New York Times have expressed their approval, but the quality of Presley's...
THE CONGRESS Restless Estes Scanning Senate Democratic committee assignments this session, Syndicated Columnist Doris Fleeson last week sniffed some skulduggery at the political crossroads. Ignoring seniority and the sensitivity of Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, the Democratic Steering Committee also had ignored the Keef's restless desire to sit...
If 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...
Besides his analysis of the Inner Club whose existence explains much of the perplexing nature of the Senate, White discusses Senate committees and investigations, and hits the Senate roundly for recent violations of basic civil rights. He cites both Kefauver and McCarthy. But he also gives an example of Senate...
It was rumored that one reason Kennedy had been reluctant to accept the place on the advisory group was that he did not want to antagonize Senator Johnson prior to Senate committee assignments. Tuesday, however, Kennedy received the position he desired, on the Foreign Relations Committee. His chief competitor for...