Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter medicine that Wisconsin's Republican state convention forced on aging (72) Republican Senator Alexander Wiley last May when it voted to support another candidate in the U.S. Senate primary. The G.O.P organization diagnosed Wiley's political illness as an acute case of globalitis-for Wiley, as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker...
Wisconsin. Despite lack of Administration support, 72-year-old Alexander Wiley is a good bet in a bitter Sept.11 primary against Organization Candidate Glenn Davis, should win over the victor of the Democratic primary (Henry Maier v. Elliot Walstead...
...Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, "is marshaling all the pressure it can" against the bill on the theory that "if the Hell's Canyon bill can be defeated, Wayne Morse can also be defeated." In the end, an almost solid phalanx of Republicans (exceptions: Wisconsin's Alex Wiley and North Dakota's Bill Langer), joined by eight conservative Southern Democrats, struck a blow for President Eisenhower's partnership policy of power development. They defeated the Democratic bill, 51 to 41. Mourned Oregon's Morse: "A tragic blow to the welfare of the nation...
...Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down...
...took a lot of education to convince most citizens (including T.R.) that good food could turn to poison. One such educator was a testy Department of Agriculture chemist. Dr. Harvey Washington ("Old Borax") Wiley, who got a volunteer "poison squad" to eat spoiling food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful...