Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historians, political scientists, and just plain politicians will probably be pondering the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to prominence and power for a good many years to come. Even more spectacular, in a way, has been the Wisconsin senator's rapid descent into almost as much political obscurity as a United States senator can ever hope to attain. Harry Truman and Richard Nixon are not exactly noted for their harmony on most issues, but both have labeled McCarthy a political has-been in recent months and agree that his power has virtually evaporated. A.D.A. national chairman Joseph Rauh, Jr. tuned...
Kefauver, whose decision climaxed a triumphant threeday, 800-mile stump of Wisconsin, figured he had everything to gain and Stevenson everything to lose. A Stevenson defeat, with nearly every top Minnesota Democrat backing him, could be his Waterloo. Even a fairly strong showing by Estes would tarnish Adlai's luster...
From time to time, the doctrine of interposition was revived (notably by New England, against the War of 1812, and by Wisconsin, in a challenge to the Dred Scott Decision). South Carolina's John C. Calhoun brought the doctrine to its full flower. He gave the back of his hand to numerical majorities, inventing the phrase "concurrent majority," by which he meant the agreement of "each interest or portion of the [national] community." Each group should have a veto power to stop governmental action favored by all the others, much as the U.N. Security Council works-or fails...
...Author Levine reports that after the trial a newspaperman, rummaging through a wastepaper basket which held the discarded ballots, discovered that MacArthur had voted for acquittal. In a letter addressed to Senator Wiley of Wisconsin (who had requested confirmation of the story), and published in the Congressional Record (Feb. 19, 1947); MacArthur said: "... Your recollection of my part in [Mitchell's] trial is entirely correct. It was fully known to him and he never ceased to express his gratitude for my attitude...
After a half century of combating the grey squirrel, the experts are ready to give up. It is cheaper to treat the damage, Bell Labs has decided, than to try to prevent it. Said Engineer Smith last week, noting the reports of squirrel assaults on Wisconsin cable: "It's hopeless; we're suspending study of the problem...