Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator William Langer's recent gibberings about the fitness of Chief Justice Warren may have been a blessing in disguise; Warren has been confirmed unscathed, and a movement is on to remove men like Langer from sensitive committee chairmanships. Indirectly attacking the North Dakotan, Senate majority leader William Knowland has proposed revisions in the seniority system. This is a recognition that the logical bases for seniority advancement are shaky...
...this arbitrary system has often brought high minded and competent men to chairmanships, Congress and the country have only luck to thank. Cases like Langer's clearly show what can happen when this kind of luck runs out. The seniority system frequently bars the ablest members of the Senate from positions of responsibility. It favors small, one-party states by allowing their senators to accumulate long records of uninterrupted service on the committee. But the ability to be re-elected has no real connection with either party loyalty or competency for a chairmanship...
...party policy committee in each house select chairmen from the senior committee members seems reasonable. Power of appointment and removal in this group would ensure party responsibility at least, and would make possible the replacement of incompetents. Under this kind of a system, obstructionist antics like those of Langer need not be tolerated...
During and after World War II, Langer administered research and intelligence work for the government. He received the Medal of Merit in 1946 for his work with serving as Chief of the Research and Analysis Branch...
After receiving his A.M. from Harvard in 1920, Langer spent a year at the University of Vienna. His study of "The Decisive Years of German Weltpolitik: Germany's Relations with Russia and England, 1989-1920" won the Toppan Prize...