Word: kem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James Kem, 74, Republican Senator from Missouri from 1946 to '52, whose crusades against NATO, the Marshall Plan ("a sinkhole"), U.S. involvement in Korea ("unconstitutional war"), federal housing and aid to education ("an experiment in socialism") won him so many enemies that Democrat Stuart Symington unseated him by more than 150,000 votes in 1952, while Eisenhower was carrying the state by 30,000; in Charlottesville...