Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serving under his sixth President, always gets the money he wants without a murmur from Congress, has built an international reputation as a G-man who rounds up Communists with the same efficiency that he tracks down criminals. But every so often, Hoover comes in for criticism-Nebraska's Senator George Norris once called him "the greatest hound for publicity on the American continent." And last week, out of a clear blue Democratic sky, came one of the most blistering denunciations ever...
Damn Yankees. Considering himself "a left-hander in a righthanders' world," Veeck's relations with his fellow club owners were a succession of explosions. "If baseball owners ran Congress," he says, "Kansas and Nebraska would still be trying to get into the Union." More than anyone else, Veeck fought with the New York Yankees. "Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act," he says. "It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction...
...Ataturk's goals are impressive even by the standards its name implies. With present enrollment at 460, the university hopes to accommodate 1,000 students by 1965, and eventually grow to 10,000. Says R. A. Souchek. the Nebraska-educated Turk who serves as group secretary: "Ataturk University will be a beacon to these people who have lived too long in the dark ages...
...evidence, bring it out on the record and don't give it to a favored newsman." Freeman shrugged off the complaint: "There was no reason we shouldn't have conducted such a survey. You had prejudged this case and brought politics into it." Then Mundt and Nebraska's Senator Carl Curtis, also on the committee, demanded-and got-promises from Freeman that the Agriculture Department will not discriminate against farmers in their states because of the Senators' roles in the Estes investigation...
...five-member Senate Investigations subcommittee considered calling Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt and Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, the only Republican members, issued a joint statement charging that Freeman was trying to "thwart" the hearings. Mundt and Curtis produced signed affidavits from Freeman aides declaring that a special search had been made of the correspondence between the Senators and the department going back to 1953. No such examination was made of the files on the three subcommittee Democrats. Thomas R. Hughes, Freeman's executive assistant, admitted ordering the search, but insisted that...