Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice chairmen sweated for three weeks drawing it up. His brain trust consisted of Representative Clifford R. Hope of Garden City, Kans.; Albert E Carter of Oakland, Calif.; Everett M Dirksen of Pekin, Ill.; Richard B. Wigglesworth of Milton, Mass.; John M. Robsion of Barbourville...
...vast discomfort of the Chicago Tribune, which had often hailed him as a hero, Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen a Republican from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...
...concurrent Congressional resolutions except to adjourn (customarily only those embracing legislation are submitted to the President). A two-thirds majority in each House would be needed to override his veto. Practically, such a resolution would require majority public opinion for passage. (This amendment, submitted by Representative Everett Dirksen of Pekin, Ill., was hailed as Republican coup-of-the-week when it was voted in while 65 Democrats went to lunch one afternoon. It was a one-day wonder...
...Pekin, Ill. (pop. 16,129) eight men and two women handed Communist pamphlets to Saturday afternoon shoppers and farmers in town for the day, were badly mauled and manhandled, raced for the grey stone courthouse in the centre of town, begged the sheriff for protection. He locked the doors, spirited the Communists to the Tazewell County jail, put them on a Chicago-bound train early next morning, after the threatening mob had dwindled from...