Word: lister
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Veteran Sen. Lister Hill (D.-Ala.) and Sen. Ernest Gruening (D.-Alaska) finally won the 67th and 68th seats late yesterday morning. In Alabama, Hill fought Republican James D. Martin right to the wire, and most political observers are amazed by the smallness the long-time Senator's margin of victory...
Alabama. The Republican Party is putting on its most vigorous performance in years, hitting at the Kennedy Administration's armed intervention in neighboring Mississippi. But the G.O.P. has no serious hope of unseating Democrat Lister Hill...
...that, Mansfield began scouting around to see if any Southerners wanted to resume the filibuster. "We were careful to check all of those fellows," said Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, "so that they couldn't complain that we'd tried to rush them. We asked John Stennis and Lister Hill and all the rest. But none of them was going to have any more to say." After the lopsided final Senate vote, the amendment was sent to the House; if approved by two-thirds of the members, it will still require ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures...
...still making rounds when President Kennedy tapped him. The Senate has still to confirm his appointment, but that seems a cinch. Back in Red Level, Ala., his birthplace, Terry was named for a respected local doctor named Luther Leonidas Hill, whose son Lister is now Alabama's senior Senator and chairman of the committee that passes on PHS appointments...
...have neatly sidestepped the Powell Amendment. But Indiana's House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, determined foe of federal school aid, torpedoed the plan with a firm count-me-out. The Democratic bill passed with the Powell Amendment attached, and Senate Southerners loosed the predictable howls. Alabama's Lister Hill, chairman of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, vowed "unalterable and unequivocal" rejection of any measure that included the Powell Amendment...