Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred George Aandahl, 55, North Dakota farmer and politician (ex-Congressman, ex-governor), to be Assistant Secretary in charge of the Division of Water and Power. As a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination last summer. Aandahl made an enemy of Senator William Langer, also a candidate. Langer won both the primary and the November election, and last week he faced Aandahl at a hearing of the Senate Interior Committee, which passed on the four Interior Department appointees. Happy after all to see a fellow North Dakotan in a high-Government post and a rival North Dakotan out of state...
...composed, the Foreign Relations Committee consists of eight Republicans (including chairman Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin) and seven Democrats. On the Republican side are semi-reactionaries Taft of Ohio and Hicken-looper of lowa, moderates Knowland of California and Langer of North Dakota, semi-liberals Smith of New Jersey and Ferguson of Michigan, and in a category all his own, Tobey of New Hampshire, an enigmatic character in the political spectrum. Chairman Wiley is decidedly as internationalist. On the other side of the table are Democrats Green of Rhode Island. Fulbright of Arkansas, Sparkman of Alabama, Gillette of Iowa, Humphrey...
...reported that the vote on Conant, expected today, might be unanimous. Senator Langer (R.N.D.) is the only member of the 15-man committee who might turn thumbs down...
...Republican William Langer of North Dakota...
Historians, Langer implied, can help improve the present state of affairs by providing a definition of the free world's philosophy, "comprehensive yet succint," and by delving deeper into current world-wide trends. Only by properly analyzing the present, Langer says, will we be able to draw up sensible plans for the future...