Word: welker
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Shortly after receving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Borgmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep-Udaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...
When Novikoff went to Washington on April 23 for his public hearing, an air of belligerence seemed to have replaced his former attitude of cooperation. Several sharp class between Novikoff and the committee marked the opening moments of the session, with Senator Welker accusing Novikoff of doing "a terrible injustice to the committee" in his statements...
...memory of the last fiasco is not always so clear as his vision of the next election. In January, after potato prices had slumped about 60% in a year. Congress passed a new law permitting "limited" supports. Then producers and their Senators (chiefly Idaho's Republican Herman Welker and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith) began to urge the Department of Agriculture to have another helping of potatoes. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson firmly declined, suggested that growers cut production. But as prices fell and pressure mounted, Benson yielded. Last week he announced that the Department will...
...quarreling old women," and a few are "old fuds," * blocking the Eisenhower program and thus endangering G.O.P. election prospects. Writing in the American Magazine, Scott named to his "fudocracy": in the Senate, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, 43, Nevada's George W. Malone, 63, Idaho's Herman Welker, 46; and in the House, Illinois' Noah Mason, 71, Michigan's Clare Hoffman, 77, and New York's Dan Reed...
...blocking if he chose, and the Senate was already in a squeeze to get through before the scheduled end-of-the-month adjournment. To show that they planned to stir up a big storm, McCarran and his two chief Republican allies, Indiana's Jenner and Idaho's Welker, had dropped 70 amendments to the refugee bill into Senate hoppers...