Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Dakota's windy old William Langer asked West Virginia's aging (79) Democrat Matthew Neely: "Is President Eisenhower a Republican or a Democrat?" Replied Neely mischievously, "Why ask me? It took him 62 years to find that out. While we are on that point ... it took him over 60 years to find out that he could join a church...
...that the soup had "enough pepper to choke a horse," that the juice was canned and the tea soapy. Between complaints he discussed such affairs of state as Alaska statehood, the Montana primary election and antimonopoly features of the monopolistic Post Office Department. At 7:30 loose-jointed Bill Langer stumbled in. "Good morning, but I don't have time to talk now," said Talker Morse, and on he talked...
...moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
...Millikin was intended simply to head off the George amendment with a more palatable substitute. The George amendment would drain $2.4 billion from the Treasury; the Millikin amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...
Split Bloc. The exchange between the cattle country's Bowring and the wheat country's Langer illustrated a fact that members of Congress well know: the price-support argument is not a "farm bloc" issue. Farm-state Senators and Representatives are split, with those from grain, dairy and cotton areas generally plumping for high, rigid supports and those from livestock and diversified sections favoring flexibility. In view of the split, the Eisenhower Administration this week was fighting for the votes of Northern, big-city Democrats, who will hold the balance of power when the roll calls come. Vice...