Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national ticket in 1956, had decided to seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor. The Williams-blessed candidate for Senator will be former Senator Blair Moody, the newspaper correspondent (Detroit News) who was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Williams in 1951, then lost to Republican Charles Potter...
...hardest blow came from the U.S. Army in its charge that McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his committee counsel, had conducted one of the most outrageous operations in the history of political pressure cooking. Before the week was out, even such staunch conservative Republicans as Michigan's Senator Charles Potter and Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen were throwing verbal brickbats at McCarthy...
...Denies Everything." Michigan's Charlie Potter, one of the four Republicans on McCarthy's subcommittee, was the first Senator on Capitol Hill who got a copy of the Army report, two days before the press did. Clutching it in his hand with one of his canes (he lost both legs in World War II combat), Potter went to the Senate cloakroom and got Illinois' Ev Dirksen and South Dakota's Karl Mundt, both GOP members of the subcommittee, to come off the floor. Potter showed them the report and, his voice all but strangled in anger...
...Potter caught up to McCarthy later in the afternoon and demanded that McCarthy call a meeting of the subcommittee. McCarthy refused, said he might be able to get around to it the following week. But that night, after a Republican banquet in the plush Sulgrave Club, the four Republicans caucused informally, and McCarthy said he would talk to Cohn. Next day he reported back: "Roy denies everything categorically. You haven't seen the other part of the story." They agreed that they would meet in the committee's office on Friday, confront Roy Cohn with the report...
...count gave Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez a lead of only 5,071 votes over onetime U.S. Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election and got the U.S. Senate to investigate. For 15 months a Senate subcommittee-Republicans Frank Barrett of Wyoming and Charles Potter of Michigan and Democrat Thomas Hennings of Missouri-tried to discover...