Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news from Korea continued to be encouraging, but everywhere else the President looked, things seemed to be going wrong. Congress was bent on compelling him to lend money against his will to Franco, and was loading his war-powers bill with restrictions he didn't want. When Virginia's mild, inoffensive Senator Willis Robertson called about something else, the President stared at him with cold and glittering eyes and expressed his outrage at Congress in direct, unvarnished words...
...Spain. The House argued over that one. Supporters saw it as buying the cooperation of Spain in event of war in Europe, and at least as morally justified as a loan to Tito. Not only New York's pinko Vito Marcantonio was disturbed by the loan; Virginia's conservative Howard Smith demanded to know what guarantee anybody had that Franco would help the West in case of war. What was Franco's "note" worth-"a guy like that?" he demanded. But the loan went through...
...remarks about instituting a war for peace do not represent U.S. policy," it said. "The United States Government does not favor instituting a war of any kind." Matthews assured everybody that his speech represented "my own personal thinking, not that of the Administration." Up on Capitol Hill, West Virginia's 76-year-old John Kee, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested that Administration officials not concerned with foreign policy should "keep their big mouths shut...
Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
Senate leaders, trying to get on with things last week, had just about agreed to bring the President's vital economic-control bill to a vote on Friday, but they had reckoned without West Virginia's Senator. Many-hued Matt Neely arose. On Friday, he announced in his best stumping voice, the Young Democratic Club of West Virginia would be holding a rally. He wanted to be there. "In my opinion," he declaimed, "except the saving of immortal souls, the most important thing this side of the grave to the people of the world is the success...