Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats, for their part, were solidly lined up to exploit McCarthy's discomfiture. When he wrote a 2,000-word letter to Senators John L. McClellan, Stuart Symington and Henry M. Jackson, asking them to return to their seats, all three sent back a firm "Thanks, no." Wrote Jackson: "I can find nothing in your letter that indicates any change in subcommittee policies or any desire to afford subcommittee members the authority, right and voice commensurate with their responsibility...
With McCarthy's future control of the staff thus assured, the subcommittee's three Democratic members. Senators Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Stuart Symington and John McClellan, resigned from the committee in a body, charging that they had been put in the "impossible position of having responsibility without . . . authority." The Senate's Democrats were backing them. The Democratic leadership made it plain that they would not be replaced until McCarthy mends his ways. The Democratic boycott would not keep the subcommittee from functioning, but might expose its conclusions to increased criticism...
...Solicitor: Stuart Rothman, 39. St. Paul lawyer, specialist in public housing...
William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, served Elizabeth I as chief adviser and Lord High Treasurer. It was he who sent Mary, Queen of Scots, to the block. His son, Robert, brought the Stuart dynasty to England in 1603, lived to hear King James I dub him his "little beagle...
Stupid Party" was what John Stuart Mill called the conservatives a century ago. It stuck...