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...himself as a contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952, will have to fight to hold his Senate seat. His opponent in the Democratic primary: former Governor Roy Turner, millionaire oil & cattleman, who will have the quiet support of Kerr's Democratic colleague in the Senate, Mike Monroney...
...usually late for roll calls) and Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. Both were for the amendment. The count: 60 to 28−still more than enough for passage. But two other latecomers, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James Duff and Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, arrived just in time to vote against the measure. That made it 60-30−precisely two-thirds. Vice President Richard Nixon, presiding, took a long slow look around the chamber...
Last July, the Senate of the United States was treated to an exhibition of the letter-writing skill of the supporters of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Senator Mike Monroney (D. Okia.) had received this mail when he questioned the propriety of McCarthy's investigation of top-secret Central Intelligence Agency, Among other things, Monroney was called a "Red," a "scum bag," a "traitor," a "rat" and a "nozzle-head." Since the CRIMSON'S editorial telling McCarthy to "put up or shut up" on his charge about Communist professors at Harvard was reported nationally and internationally we have been getting some...
About 20 "witnesses" paraded through the room to give their opinions on who should be Veep. The field quickly narrowed down. Out went Kefauver (unacceptable in the South), Russell (unacceptable in the North), Barkley (too old), Oklahoma's Mike Monroney (not well known enough). The final choice: Senator John Sparkman of Alabama who, though no Dixiecrat, failed to support Truman in 1948. Later, one of the men present explained: "Stevenson made his decision with Harry Truman's help...
...once a nightclub M.C.) and a spellbinding speaker who makes from five to eight lecture jaunts a week in his own plane, earned a tidy $40,000 a year, he deserted the Democrats in 1950, ran unsuccessfully as the G.O.P. nominee for the U.S. Senate against Mike Monroney, appeared at Chicago this month to address the Republican Convention...