Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, a U.S. delegate to the Assembly, promptly announced that the U.S. would support the new Latin American proposal. Although the U.S. had originally voted for the 1946 ban, the State Department now felt that: 1) the ban had failed since 17 U.N. members, most of them Latin American states, were still exchanging ambassadors or ministers with Spain; 2) the ban was useless because there was no visible alternative to the Franco regime in Spain; 3) Spain was a part of Western Europe and should not be permanently isolated...
...this instinct, Harry Truman decided that there should always be a Congressman from each party serving in the Assembly. Last week, as a result, he appointed two new delegates for the 1950 Assembly-Massachusetts G.O.P. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Alabama's Democratic Senator John J. Sparkman...
...fact that he had recently joined other Senate Republicans in placing responsibility for the Korean war on the Administration. His appointment also gave the G.O.P. a majority of regular delegates to the Assembly-Lodge, New York's John Foster Dulles and Delegation Chief Warren Austin. Besides Fair Dealer Sparkman, the only other Democrat among the regulars is Eleanor Roosevelt...
Other Congressmen were still trying to find a Baruch-like formula. Alabama's Democrat John Sparkman presented to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee an amendment to the Truman program which would authorize 1) a wage freeze, 2) rationing of scarce commodities, 3) broad rent control, and 4) a rollback of prices to June 25-the day the Korean war began-and strict control as of that date...