Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public has noted several styles in Senate committee chairmen, from the forceful intelligence with which Georgia's Richard Russell conducted the MacArthur hearings to the good-natured bumbling of Karl Mundt at the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week came a chairman with a different style. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, 67, began presiding over the special Senate committee on whether to recommend censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was quiet, polite, clearheaded-and very stubborn when pushed...
...votes. He served a quiet but hard-working term, during which he was mainly noted as an admirer of Robert Taft and a foe of executive encroachment on the legislative branch. In 1952 he was re-elected (after not taking up a McCarthy offer to campaign for him in Utah...
WATKINS began his legal career in Vernal (pop. 3,000), Utah, where he also edited a weekly newspaper. When he was 33, he was forced to return to the farm for six years because of stomach ulcers. The ailment left effects that have plagued him ever since. During the first attack his hair turned snow-white. Says he: "I've been an old man since...
...good Mormon, Watkins abhors smoking, does not drink liquor, coffee or tea, often stops to pray before a big debate on the Senate floor. As president of the Sharon (Utah) Stake of the Mormon Church from 1929 to 1946, he took a lead in sponsoring a number of cooperative ventures, e.g., group medical care plans, a phase of his career that later caused consternation among some of his Republican friends...
...face, frame, voice and manner, Watkins is cautious, precise and meticulous. Despite his quiet manner, he has a stubborn quality, has refused to be blown down by such formidable wind channels as Texas' former Democratic Senator Tom Connally and Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. Last week in Utah, the Senator's father was asked if he thought Joe McCarthy could bulldoze his son. Replied old (89) Arthur Watkins: "Nobody ever...