Word: staters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract, called vigorously for a real investigation of the lobbying scandal on the natural-gas bill (but accepted party discipline without public complaint when he was shunted aside as chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities and the investigation was steered into a bipartisan blind alley). As a border-stater, Gore is acceptable to both North and South. One of Harriman's top advisers, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, speaks especially highly of Gore. So does Rival Jack Kennedy...
Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
Clement's vice-presidential strategy is fairly well set up. By withholding Tennessee's delegate vote from Home-Stater Estes Kefauver, Clement thinks he can win the favor of front-running Candidate Adlai Stevenson. With the help of his great admirer, Harry S. Truman, Clement hopes to land the coveted convention assignment as Democratic keynote speaker. From that platform Clement is certain that his talented tongue can get him onto a Stevenson-Clement ticket...
...Nonsense. Herter made his greatest impression on Congress-and on the nation-with the reports of his Select Committee on Foreign Aid. House Speaker Joe Martin, a fellow Bay Stater, set up the committee largely because Herter convinced him that Congress could not trust the Truman Administration's figures on European needs, should get its own statistics. Herter led his 17 Congressmen and a pride of experts off on a two-month trip to Europe. He sternly forbade his crew to bring either wives or tuxedoes, and so strict were his rules against extracurricular nonsense that this sign appeared...
...person to be a resident of Massachusetts for one year, and of Boston for six months, before he is eligible to vote. When the student insisted on his right to vote, the City Law Department claimed that a dormitory is not a legal residence, and that an out-of-stater cannot vote here...