Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That there would be plenty to look at was indicated by the political waves already spreading from the $2,500 cash gift from Superior Oil Co. Lobbyist John Neff to South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case, which Case rejected. Items...
...McCarthy, badly hurt in Wisconsin by his vote for the gas bill, found it necessary to explain a $2,000 contribution he received in 1952 from a man named N. B. Keck. Joe professed uncertainty as to whether his donor was the H. B. Keck who is president of Superior Oil, but said that, in any event"I assume he was contributing because of my fight against Communism...
Brand Name. In New Haven, Conn., Yale Graduate Student Edmund D. Looney petitioned the superior court for permission to change his name, claimed that it might interfere with the practice of his future profession-psychiatry...
Scouting Trip. But that Francis Case had leaped to some pretty accurate conclusions was indicated when Lawyer John Neff was called as a witness. Neff identified himself as a $12,000-a-year lobbyist for California's Superior Oil Co., which also produces natural gas. Last fall, said Neff, he went to South Dakota to scout Case's views on the gas bill, wound up talking to the business manager of the Argus Leader, Ernest J. Kahler. Neff inquired if Case needed campaign funds. Kahler said he might. Neff asked Kahler to find out how Case stood...
Last January, Neff continued, he also learned from aides in Case's Washington office that Case was favorably disposed toward the gas bill. He therefore went to the Shoreham Hotel, where he talked to Elmer Patman, an attorney for Superior Oil, and recommended the contribution to Case. Patman peeled off $2,500 from a "personal" fund, which he handled for Superior's President Howard Keck of Los Angeles. Later, Neff flew to South Dakota and turned 25 old $100 bills over to Kahler for delivery to the Senator's campaign fund...