Word: langere
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...Senate took exactly four minutes to confirm Robert Abercrombie Lovett as the new Secretary of Defense; it happened to be on Lovett's 56th birthday. There was only one hitch. North Dakota's isolated Bill Langer wanted to know whether this was the Robert Morss Lovett who had been investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1943.* Assured that it was not, Langer made the vote unanimous...
...held down three important top policy-making jobs, just a short taxi ride across Washington from Capitol Hill. But Lovett, a tall, slender man with the poise and features of a balding Caesar, has nimbly sidestepped the publicity that might have made his name known even to Bill Langer. In a time of crisis, he is well content to work in the shadow of greater names...
...most of the Senate's week, senatorial voices echoed hollowly in a chamber that was three-quarters empty. One voice clearly heard was that of North Dakota's old-prairie twister, Senator William Langer, howling across 19 years of political history: the Democrats had not kept one of their 1932 platform promises, except the promise to put "the saloons back in business." At the height of his oration, word came that Harry Truman had just vetoed a private relief bill sponsored by Langer. The old man roared: "The bill called for $778.78 to be paid to a veteran...
...five: Indiana's Capehart, Montana's Ecton, North Dakota's Langer, Kansas' Schoeppel, Missouri's Kern...
...Whelan, the new ambassador, is a staunch Republican, and onetime Republican state committeeman, in a state where Democrats are as rare as Republicans in Alabama. He opposed Langer in the Republican primary for the Senate in 1940, but it proved to be a friendly act: Whelan's candidacy split the anti-Langer vote, and Wild Bill won easily. But why should Harry Truman be interested in such Republican matters? The fact is that unpredictable Bill Langer votes with the Administration more than half the time, and has never been paid...