Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have no more misgivings about backing Barry Goldwater than a Democratic President would have in endorsing Virginia's Harry Byrd. But Ike's struggle will come in swallowing some others in the 21, e.g., the party's three Senate Neanderthals, Molly, Jenner and Joe: i.e., Nevada's George W. Malone, Indiana's William Ezra Jenner and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. Both Malone and Jenner (who already is braying against Eisenhower Republicanism back home in Indiana) are considered unbeatable for Republican nomination. Only McCarthy, who is being looked upon with disdain by a growing...
...Norman had risen to the top rank of Canada's professional diplomatic corps. He was serving as acting permanent delegate to the United Nations in New York when his name cropped up in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, then headed by Nevada Democrat Pat McCarran. Testifying on Communist infiltration in the U.S., German-born Karl Wittfogel, onetime professor of Chinese history at Columbia University and a professed ex-Communist, said that in 1938 he and Norman, then a student in the Japanese department at Columbia, had attended a Communist study group on Cape Cod. Wittfogel...
...budget, and fell head over heels into its most cherished federal-spending outlet-the pork barrel. Up for consideration was that pork-packed perennial, the rivers and harbors bill, an assortment of 100 public-works projects, including one for every state in the Union except Rhode Island and Nevada. President Eisenhower vetoed the bill last year because it included so many projects that had not been approved by all required U.S. agencies...
...control of New York Shipbuilding, Stinson Aircraft, American Airways, and Auburn Automobile Co., which built the Cord car, now a highly prized collector's item among classic-car buffs. In the great Depression, Automan Cord's empire dissolved. Since then, he has been living quietly in Nevada, making money in real estate and serving as a state senator. Last week Automan Cord was back making the kind of glamorous news he loves, this time in uranium...
...Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone, Wisconsin's McCarthy...