Word: mavericks
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...wrangle broke out. Republicans made their questions short speeches. Democrats retorted by producing past documents to show that the Republicans had rarely lifted a voice to protest U.S. policy steps when they were taken, and Connecticut's Brien McMahon, politicking for all he was worth, and joined by Maverick Republican Wayne Morse, demanded an investigation of the "China lobby."* Acheson coolly resisted most Democratic attempts to get him to concur in attacks on MacArthur or the Republicans...
Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge deplored the effect on the "whole normal development of information." Oregon's maverick Wayne Morse supported Russell's ruling stoutly, and New Jersey's Republican Alexander Smith complimented the chairman on conducting the hearings "on the highest possible plane of fairness." From the White House, Harry Truman issued a statement: "The President made the decision [to fire MacArthur]. Conversations that led up to it are his business...
...Oregon, Republican maverick Senator Wayne Morse was running against a Democrat who was far to the right of him. Democrat Howard Latourette complained bitterly that the Truman Administration was giving him no help. The Veep conspicuously skipped Oregon in his western barnstorming and, when asked, elaborately failed to remember the Democrat's name. He added: "I like Wayne Morse. He is an attractive man." Morse was considered a shoo...
...Reader Anderson is right. Says A Dictionary of Western Words: "Maverick . . . was ... a lawyer and one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence (1836). He never made any claims to being a cattleman. In fact, his ignorance regarding cattle was responsible for his leaving such a colorful addition to our language...
...Hampshire, the Republicans' liberal, maverick, Bible-quoting Senator Charles W. Tobey, 70, over 35-year-old Candidate Wesley Powell, professed conservative, for the U.S. senatorial nomination, by 1,420 votes after a rugged and bitter campaign (TIME, Sept.11...