Word: knowland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, when Oregon's Democratic Senator Neuberger flailed the President for "lack of enthusiasm" on the civil rights bill, Minority Leader Knowland jumped up-not to defend Ike but to reply that the U.S. Senate, not the White House, would write the bill. Last week, too, on the international front, the House missed nullifying Ike's status-of-forces agreements only by going into an unusual tie isee below) despite the President's urgent warning that the agreements were "vital...
...Byrd sat down, the Senate voted by a lopsided 71 (29 Democrats, 42 Republicans) to 18 (Southern Democrats all) to begin debate on the rights bill already passed by the House. But no sooner had civil rights become the Senate's order of business than Minority Leader Bill Knowland's coalition commenced to come apart at the seams...
Nevertheless, in state and national politics the Times carries a lot of Republican weight at nomination time. It has been a strong backer in the past of such Republican sons as Governor Goodwin Knight, Senator Bill Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon, and they well know that it can be a candidate's valued friend in an area that encompasses two-thirds of the statewide vote. For example, in the major fight that is shaping up between Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination, Norman Chandler's quiet word on 1960 may come...
...friends and old antagonists through the U.S.'s newest national monument, the $21 million Harry S. Truman Library at Independence, Mo. On hand for the library's dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud Bess Truman...
Married. Helen Estelle Knowland, 19, brunette daughter of Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland; and Robert Van Sickle McKeen, 23, a 1955 University of California basketball star, now with the Kaiser Steel Corp.; in Oakland. Calif...