Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's Wiley) who had voted for flexible supports on the other basic crops, ran for cover and plumped for rigid props under wheat. Five Senators (Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Neely...
...launch a seminar in the near future. Roger Hilsman at the Center of International Studies at Princeton envisions a seminar "soon." Ohio State University, which has considerable funds available for this type of work is also interested in establishing a program. Other groups at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Virginia are also considering the establishment of defense seminars...
...Washington's birthday rally in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was reminded, he said, "that America has always been blessed with great leaders in times of great trial." In the early days Washington rose from the ranks to lead the country in war and peace; in latter days "another great general" has come along. Said McCarthy: "I refer, of course, to General Douglas MacArthur...
...Shield, a Delaware corporation, announced that it would "go out of business in New York," but will continue in other states. Same week, the New York and Georgia state legislatures approved bills to outlaw all proraters, thus following the lead of Massachusetts, Maine, and Pennsylvania. (Two more -Minnesota and Wisconsin-have tough regulatory laws...
...McCarthy, badly hurt in Wisconsin by his vote for the gas bill, found it necessary to explain a $2,000 contribution he received in 1952 from a man named N. B. Keck. Joe professed uncertainty as to whether his donor was the H. B. Keck who is president of Superior Oil, but said that, in any event"I assume he was contributing because of my fight against Communism...