Word: kuchel
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Kentucky's Cooper, California's Kuchel and Massachusetts' Saltonstall...
...Thomas H. Kuchel: An appointee of Governor Earl Warren, Kuchel is little known and is skeptically regarded by his party's conservative wing in California. ¶ Leverett Saltonstall: As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Saltonstall has little time for politicking back home. But he campaigned hard this summer, and Democratic chances are fading in Massachusetts...
...Including California's newly appointed Senator Thomas Kuchel, named after the Council's count was made...
...Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New Jersey, and Governor Warren's replacement for Nixon, Kuchel of California...
...give Kuchel seniority over other freshmen Senators, who will take office on Jan. 3. In so doing, Nixon is cutting his term of congressional service just short of six years, and abandoning chances of drawing a congressional pension. Kuchel is accepting a salary cut-from $16,000 a year to $12,500-to take his new post in the Senate. Without diluting his loyalty to Governor Warren, Kuchel is also accepting new political fealty. "I am now," he said last week, "a middle-of-the-road Eisenhower Republican...