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Woodruff is a Yale graduate and a member of the Committee of Seventy, a non-partisan group in Philadelphia which acts as a political watchdog over local politicians and tries to ensure honest elections...
Posies. Some ten feet away from Dirksen, drinking it all in, was North Dakota's Non-Partisan League Senator William Langer. Dirksen's speech, said Langer, "brought tears to my eyes. I wondered if we should not include in the resolution a provision for sending flowers to Senator McCarthy, and whether we should not debate the kind of flowers which should be sent-whether they be forget-me-nots, chrysanthemums or roses...
...grant (about $75,000) to set up the non-profit Southern Education Reporting Service. Staffed by working newsmen, the news service, with headquarters in Nashville, will provide free factual news to editors, public officials, school administrators, etc., describing the shift from segregated to nonsegregated schools. Said Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the Southern Education Reporting Service: "School administrators . . . in each of the 17 states affected will stand to benefit by the experience of [other] school administrators [reported] on a strictly factual, non-partisan basis...
Langer won Republican nominations for Senator in 1940 and 1946 over the bitter opposition of the regular North Dakota Republican organization. His support comes from the remnants of Non-Partisan League, a populist organization of which he is a leader. In his feud with home-state Republicans, Langer used to get considerable help from his close political friend, President Truman. He now wants to use his position as head of the Judiciary Committee to force the Republican Administration to give him a tight hold on all federal patronage in North Dakota...
...success to get two of his followers appointed to the federal bench; the Justice Department does not think his men are qualified. Last week Langer blew up again when the Administration announced the nomination of four North Dakota postmasters. Three of the four, as it happens, are Langer followers, Non-Partisan Leaguers. But that was not enough. Langer bawled that he was not consulted in advance about the appointments; merely notified after the fact. His office issued a lordly statement: "Senator Langer says although he is the senior Republican Senator from North Dakota, he has not been consulted...