Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composed, the Foreign Relations Committee consists of eight Republicans (including chairman Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin) and seven Democrats. On the Republican side are semi-reactionaries Taft of Ohio and Hicken-looper of lowa, moderates Knowland of California and Langer of North Dakota, semi-liberals Smith of New Jersey and Ferguson of Michigan, and in a category all his own, Tobey of New Hampshire, an enigmatic character in the political spectrum. Chairman Wiley is decidedly as internationalist. On the other side of the table are Democrats Green of Rhode Island. Fulbright of Arkansas, Sparkman of Alabama, Gillette of Iowa, Humphrey...
...Wiley: "Even if his head is in the stars...
Conant's nomination, together with that of Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as Undersecretary of State, will come before the Senate for confirmation tomorrow. Committee chairman Alexander Wiley R. Wis.) said he expected no difficulty...
Committee chairman Alexander Wiley (R.-Wis.) described Conant's rebuttals to charges against him as follows...
Committee chairman Alexander Wiley (R.-Wis.) reported that Flynn based his opposition on five issues: Conant's alleged support of a "dismantle German industry" plan, his advocacy of a radical party in 1943, laxity toward possible subversives at Harvard, probable poor reception of Conant in Germany, and Conant's attack on private schools as "divisive...