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...power to see that Joe gets his comeuppance, come Judgment Day. Last week came Judgment Day: up before the Senate was Joe's request for $214,000 to carry on the work of his permanent subcommittee on investigations during the next year. The vote: 85 "yea," only one "nay"-a voice raised by Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright after McCarthy had demanded a roll-call vote. Among the liberals who failed to hear the Trump: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, New York's Herbert Lehman, Oregon's Wayne Morse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Boy Scouts | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Although the meeting is scheduled for Sunday night, October 25, caucuses will meet tomorrow night to plan strategy of debate. The Governing Board also announced the group's now constitution had eliminated the fixed "liberal" and "conservative" caucuses of last year and substituted instead shifting "Yea" and "Nay" caucuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athenaeum to Debate NATO in First Meeting | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

First Crimed: Uh, do you have nay hobbies...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: You Oughta Be in Pictures | 10/2/1953 | See Source »

...even if there were thousands, nay, whole cities who were going along with this (choke) disgusting trend, those of us who remain red blooded American youths should denounce Sidney the parrot for the crooked bird he is, and stand by Fearless Fosdick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Right vs. Might | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...yard breast-stroke--won by Douglas, Williams, 2:20.2, O'Connor, Yale; 3, Zani, Harvard, 2:25.4; Bird, Navy; 5, Stuhldreher, Yale; 6, Nay, Navy (disqualified...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Yale Swim Sweep Rolls On; Crimson 2nd in Team Score | 3/21/1953 | See Source »

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