Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference, Dulles lashed out: "We do not propose to throw away those precious assets [of mutual respect and friendship] by blustering and domineering methods." Other free nations, he said, will be treated "as sovereign equals" and not as "our satellites." To dramatize the point to McCarthy's Wisconsin constituents. Dulles warned that Milwaukee and other cities "would be sitting ducks for atomic bombs" without early-warning radar "facilities in the friendly countries which are nearer the Soviet Union...
...happened during the first year of World War II, but the story of the Soviet rape of the Baltic states has never been fully and publicly told. Wisconsin's Republican Representative Charles Kersten, chairman of a special House investigating committee, last week began putting on the record one of the grisliest stories of this grisly century...
...cards actually signed in the dining rooms only five attacked Eisenhower's disagreement with the Wisconsin senator. Ninety-five graduate students endorsed the President's stand...
...Attack on Ike. With that to go on, Joe McCarthy demanded and got from timid radio and TV networks a free half hour (worth an estimated $300,000 at commercial rates) to answer Truman's "attack upon me." But what the Wisconsin Senator said about White and Truman was much less interesting than what he said about the Eisenhower Administration...
Crazylegs (Hall Bartlett; Republic) is an agreeably amateurish movie about professional football players. Produced in Hollywood by Hall (Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...