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Idaho: Eisenhower easily. Old Guard Senator Herman Welker is challenged by Democrat Frank Church - but Church is hurt, and is likely to be beaten, by write-in competition from left-wing Democrat Glen Taylor, beaten in the primary but still a threat to some 5,000 Church votes...
...even the President are not the effective policy makers who determine the record of an Administration or a Congress. The powers in a Republican Congress have been and would be Velde in the Committee on Un-American Activities, Tabor in budget-cutting, and our old friends Reese, Bricker, Malone, Welker, Short, Jenner and McCarthy...
...G.O.P.'s most persistent orator). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges ran the campaign in the cloakroom. Operator Bridges, an expert in dispensing political favors, collected some of his many I.O.U.s to keep Republicans in line. Some farm Senators, e.g., Idaho's Herman Welker, North Dakota's Milton Young and South Dakota's Francis Case, all up for re-election next year, seemed to be wavering toward a tax cut, until Bridges urged them back. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy was itching for a chance to plant a dirk in the Administration...
...Confirmed New York Judge John Marshall Harlan as an Associate Supreme Court Justice by a vote of 71 to 11 (nine Southern Democrats, who suspect they will not like Harlan's views on segregation, and Republicans Langer and Welker, who do not like his "internationalism...
...into animal forms, shaping a dog, a rabbit and a kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...