Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, whip, were in on the consultations. While McCarthy was vilifying Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, the G.O.P. leaders who drafted Watkins for the censure job turned their backs...
...Utah's Watkins patiently explained that the proposed changes were typographical, with one brief deletion of an obvious error. Replied McCarthy: "I have found so many obvious errors that I should like to know which one the Senator is deleting." When Watkins tossed a copy of the corrected report on McCarthy's desk, McCarthy whined that he now had to go through 72 pages. "The Senator from Utah has told me that he knows what these errors are," he complained. "Why does he not mark them for me?" South Dakota's mild-mannered Republican Senator Francis Case...
Sitting next to each other in their regular places on the Republican side of the aisle were McCarthy and Utah's frail, grey Arthur Watkins, chairman of the select committee which recommended censure. Their chairs were only a couple of feet apart, but the space between their shoulders was twice that (each man leaned away from the other), and the distance between their convictions was immeasurable...
Among the more surprising House contests were two in Florida and Texas, where Republican Congressmen were elected in traditionally Democratic districts. Also unexpected was the result in the First District of Utah, where Republican Henry Dixon, after only two weeks of campaigning, won the Congressional seat recently vacated by the discredited hero Douglas Stringfellow...
This week the Vice President's plane headed into Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, California, Oregon and Washington, and back to Wyoming. On election eve he will wind up with a speech from Sioux City, Iowa. The Democrats would be happy to see a few more snowstorms on Dick Nixon's route...