Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Majority Leader Bob Taft and Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed their nominees for committee membership in the Senate last week, one name was conspicuously absent. Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who walked out of the Republican Party during the presidential campaign, was not on either list. What's more, all committee places were filled, except for two gaping G.O.P. vacancies on the Public Works and District of Columbia committees, the Limbo of the Senate...
This harmonious prelude of the 83rd by no means meant that it would always be thus. There was a live, brilliantly cravatted reminder of one big problem the Republican leadership faces. Playing to the galleries, as usual, Wayne Morse, the Oregon maverick, strolled into the chamber lugging an iron folding chair, prepared to "sit in the middle of the aisle." The Republicans shooed him over to his old seat in the front row on their side, just because that was the simplest thing to do. Not so simple would be the Morse-born problem of maintaining a Republican majority...
...Senators Taft and Knowland and the rest of the Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New Jersey, and Governor Warren's replacement for Nixon, Kuchel of California...
...opposition, the General Assembly passed a "Right of Correction Treaty." If the U.S. Government ratified the treaty, for example, it would be required to distribute to the press "corrections" from any other government that feels it has been misrepresented by U.S. papers. U.S. Delegate Charles Sprague, ex-governor of Oregon and publisher of the Salem (Ore.) Statesman, called the treaty a "hazardous step" because it would force a government to distribute to its press any propaganda other countries wanted to foist upon it. The Russians and their satellites also voted against the treaty on completely different grounds: they are still...
...time when worsening power shortages are causing unemployment and brownouts in the Northwest, was the first admission from a top Government power official that federal ownership of power may not be the best thing for the nation. His plan may well meet with approval from the Eisenhower Administration. Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, the incoming Interior Secretary, has already said he thinks it sound...