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...Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert, and Tennessee's Brazilla Carroll Reece...
...Cripple. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney was the first to object, protested that Knowland's plan "would amount to indefinite postponement, putting it on ice and avoiding meeting the issue head on." Answered Knowland: "I do not subscribe to the intimation . . . that we are a body of intimidated men." Knowland reminded Monroney that the Democratic Party had never censured McCarthy, though it controlled the Senate, when McCarthy was "very powerful." Said Knowland: ". . . Now that perhaps he has been a little crippled, it can do what it was not willing to do then." Shot back Monroney: ". . . If he is crippled...
Idaho's Republican Herman Welker, one of Joe's most loyal pals, agreed with Liberals Monroney and Fulbright that a censure vote should be taken quickly, but Welker's vote would be for Joe. Said Welker: "... I am going to stand up and hit a lick for America." Welker could see no profit in restraining Joe's methods, "under a nicey-nicey code of ethics." Welker was especially incensed at Flanders' charge that McCarthy had contempt for his fellow men. Roared Welker: "No one can tell me that Irishman would not give the shirt...
...Resolved, without dissent, to set up a chapel in the Capitol. Explained Oklahoma's Democrat Mike Monroney, the project's sponsor, "We've got Turkish baths, private dining rooms and automatic-typewriting rooms, but no place to pray...
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, Sears's son-in-law David Busby, a local Democratic politico, proposed Sears's name to Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. Monroney's endorsement helped make up Jackson's mind in Sears's favor...