Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of vacancies to fill on committees from which Cliff Case had departed: 1) District of Columbia, and 2) Post Office and Civil Service. Each is so lowly that no Senator bothered to bid for it. Result: the posts will be left open for McCarthy's successor from Wisconsin, whoever he may be and whenever he is elected...
...bellwether of the far right, but, while many of his views may be faulted as narrow, or behind the political and social times, he has never been identified with the fanatic right. Thus, unlike some of the Neanderthals he admires, e.g., Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, Wisconsin's late Senator Joe McCarthy, Lawrence is a realist in world affairs; he has vigorously supported the League of Nations, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, long-term foreign...
...fierce skirmish of the Korean war in late 1950, Army Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., an American Indian from Wisconsin, died gallantly, won the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding his position, though mortally wounded. At ceremonies earlier this month, honoring Red Cloud and other Indians killed in Korea, peppery old (82) Korean President Syngman Rhee loosed a surprise blast at some of Hollywood's vaguely historical horse operas. Cried Rhee: "Movie producers [should] stop making films that show American Indians being killed by white men. It is very, very unwise and inhumane. The Communists are making...
...Vermont's George Aiken, Colorado's Gordon Allott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Kansas' Frank Carlson, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Alexander Smith, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Utah's Arthur Watkins and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...Root of It. In Milwaukee. Dentist Alfred Seyler. specialist in jittery child patients, told the Wisconsin Dental Society: "The trouble with most child psychology is that children don't understand...