Word: mckaye
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Serving on the administrative committee with Kennedy are Gordon M. Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering, and Albert Haertlein '16, associate dean of Applied Science...
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
...McKay's remarks and the. decision on statehood that preceded them indicated that the Republicans in Washington had given up hope of carrying Alaska, which had gone Democratic in the last eleven biennial elections, except in 1946 and 1952 (the only times the Republicans won nationally...
Commenting on the four-hour meeting that he, Dean Bundy, and Donald C. McKay '28, professor of History, had with two high Army officials in Washington Tuesday, Dupuy said, "The Army is very anxious to try the new program experimentally. The only things holding it back are three problems which we are trying to solve...
...McKay said that the French Socialists will probably vote more in a bloc for this agreement than they did for the EDC pact which was defeated earlier. The failure of the Socialists to vote as a body was one of the principal causes of EDC's downfall...