Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed debate had to be called off," a Forum spokesman said, "when no suitable opponent could be found for the Wisconsin senator...
Between the Senate Office Building and the Old House Office Building a reporter can take the pulse of Wyoming, check the price of Texas cattle, learn what is troubling Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, get background on Mississippi politics-all by spending enough time with the right people on Capitol Hill...
...Short-Range Thinking." This short-range thinking was sharply illustrated by Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, whose approach was the precise opposite...
...Boston, stands a large map of the U.S., and above it runs the inscription : "Justice is the guarantee of liberty." At the bottom are the names of distinguished Massachusetts jurists-Cushing, Story, Curtis, Gray, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, Frankfurter.In front of the map one day last week sat a onetime Wisconsin circuit judge, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, busy in active refutation of rumors that he was going to quit the Communist chase and devote himself to less flamboyant pursuits. McCarthy was in full cry after an old quarry: Associate Physics Professor Wendell H. Furry of Harvard -and, through him, Harvard...
...Bernice Fitz-Gibbon. fiftyish, whose "Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels" ads made her the best-known woman in U.S. retail advertising, resigned as advertising director of Manhattan's Gimbels department store (as of April 1). Wisconsin-born Bernice Fitz-Gibbon came to New York as a copywriter for Macy's, where she coined "It's smart to be thrifty," went to Wanamaker's before she joined Gimbels...