Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon had sought the abolition as a step toward world rule of law. Secretary of State Christian Herter and Attorney General William P. Rogers took strong stands in testimony before the committee. The move to repeal was sponsored by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, had the support of other key Democrats. More than half the Senate favored abolition...
...World Court, can be abolished only by a treaty-ratifying two-thirds vote of the Senate. Party leaders polled members, found too many up-for-election Senators afraid to stand on a hot issue not yet understood by millions of voters. Rather than suffer a damaging defeat, the Humphrey amendment's supporters decided to mark time...
...prepared to tilt at anyone, whether it be President Eisenhower (for supposedly standing aside from the battle) or Bing Crosby (for not taking a firm stand against segregated golf tournaments). In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the columnist supports and has gone stumping in Wisconsin for Hubert Humphrey ("One of the ablest and most liberal members of the upper House"); he is dead set against Jack Kennedy ("Fair-haired boy of the Southern segregationists...
Kennedy voted for Benson's farm program 27 times," an angry farmer told Kennedy Aide Lem Billings. "It says so right here." And he pointed to a Humphrey brochure. Despite cries of "foul" from Governor Gaylord Nelson and Senator William Proxmire, Humphrey pressed the attack. Crowed he, pushing back from a Humphrey Family Day bean feed in Wausau's Newman High School cafeteria: "I feel like I just swallowed two tons of vitamins...
...afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand. Said an awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most of the Democrats in the district." Added a leading Democrat: "If you were to limit this election to habitual Democrats, Humphrey would probably win. But all the fringe interest has been with Kennedy; the glamour, the hard campaigning by the family, have brought out a whole new crop of voters...