Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey: "The Hurtling Hubert is a missile of extremely long range. In a test firing last year, the Hurtling Hubert actually reached Soviet Russia, where its communication system kept running at top speed for eight consecutive hours. It is in constant television contact with the earth. Its fuel supply was developed largely in the mid-1930s, and some scientific circles feel a more modern source of thrust is needed...
However, all other democratic hopefuls named in the poll, including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, were considered easy prey for either Rockefeller or Nixon...
Later in the afternoon, his unyielding line on Germany, on U.S. overseas bases and on U.S.S.R. censorship and radio jamming shook 26 members and guests of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called together for tea with the visitor by Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas. Said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy when the session was over: "He's a little like a candidate in the late stages of the campaign. He has heard all the questions many times, and his answers are sharp as hell...
...November elections (House 283-153; Senate 64-34); the Republicans were stuck with their refusal to spend their way out of the recession; their once-popular President was held to be an ailing lame duck. Four 1960-minded Democratic Senators -Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy-appeared on every score card. But by the time the 86th Congress got ready to adjourn this week for its half-time break, the four Democratic hopefuls had learned the dangers of underrating the other team. The four...
...Minnesota's Humphrey, leading contender for the title of old-style New Dealer, loosed a blizzard of proposals for new alphabet agencies into the Senate hopper. Sample: a CCC-style Youth Conservation Corps. But in an era of budget-balancing conservatism, he looked like a Democratic dinosaur. Busy touring the country on his half-announced candidacy, Humphrey did not find time to carry out the one important legislative assignment that he got from Johnson: writing a completely new Democratic farm program and fighting it through Congress. Half-time prospects: dim and fading...