Word: spessard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...
Week's only sour note for Chris Herter was struck on the Senate floor when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland noted for the record that many were "fearful" about Herter's "resolution and firmness," urged Herter to meet the "challenge." Before the week was out Herter...
Florida: Democrat Spessard Holland, 66, ambled to his third term...
Major deponents in this year's election race for Senator were ex-Senator Claude Pepper and Incumbent Spessard Holland (TIME, Sept. 8). What went on at the grillings was, as usual, the secret of those who took part, but apparently they were uncommonly revealing. Making its choice last week, the News headlined its editorial "A Limited Choice...
...Pepper," wrote Baggs, "has watered his philosophy . . . and we would not know what we were recommending to our readers if we recommended him." But Spessard Holland, who snipes at Pepper as an unregenerate pro-Red, "has been guilty of pine and palmetto McCarthy-ism." The News's summation: a gingerly approval of Holland-only because his seniority might help Florida's agriculture and timber industries...