Word: potterism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirksen, raged at him and recalled their old Senate friendship. Said Dirksen: "Oh, well, okay, I'll sign." He insisted, however, that his signature would not be valid unless three specified Democrats, John McClellan of Arkansas, Stuart Symington of Missouri and Henry Jackson of Washington, also signed. Charles Potter, Michigan Republican, signed with the stipulation ,that three Democrats-any three Democrats-would have to sign before his signature was valid...
Actually. Cohn's forced resignation was a victory for Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, who had demanded dismissals on both sides of the Army-McCarthy row. So far. Potter has failed to hit his Army target. Counselor John G. Adams. ("If we fired John G.," a top Pentagon official said, "it would look like a deal with McCarthy, and the people are tired of McCarthy deals.") But on the subcommittee Potter's vote, plus those of the three Democrats, made up a 4-3 majority that could give Cohn his walking papers...
...Senator Blair Moody. 52, of Michigan, died suddenly in the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. A onetime Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, Democrat Moody was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1951 and lost it to Republican Charles Potter in 1952. To millions of TViewers across the nation, he was remembered as one of the three rambunctious "Young Turks" (the others: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and "Soapy" Williams) at the 1952 Democratic Convention...
Neither side should haye been surprised by Potter's statement. In World War II Potter rose from private to major, was wounded three times. In the Colmar pocket, both of his legs were blown off by, an enemy land mine. With that record behind him, Potter could reasonably find it difficult to sympathize either with faltering Army leadership or with efforts to make two peacetime years of Army life bearable for high-living Private Gerard David Schine...
...Potter's statement seemed to shift the 4-3 balance on the committee in favor of the Democrats and might result in a majority report that recommended the firing, among others, of Committee Counsel Roy Cohn, a result which McCarthy would find most distasteful...