Word: midwesterner
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...down from the rostrum into the well of the House one afternoon last week to make one of his infrequent speeches. He urged his fellow Republicans to vote for the $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Martin said, with a glance toward his Midwestern colleagues, that he believes in economy but that some grave mistakes can be made in its name. Said he: "Security is more precious than dollars . . . Let us take the leadership that God has placed in our hands and use it wisely for the benefit of humanity . . . Let us give Dwight...
...attempts to cut it. Sam Ray burn's side of the aisle did the most to "give Dwight Eisenhower a chance." Of the 280 votes for the bill, 160 were cast by Democrats, 119 by Republicans and one by an independent. The opposition votes came mostly from Midwestern Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...Administration's proposed defense budget. The new defense program, he said, "allocates funds as justly and as wisely as possible among the three armed services." Then the President turned to the "fortress" theory of U.S. foreign policy, the up-to-date version of isolationism dear to many a Midwestern heart. Said he: "All of us have learned-first from the onslaught of Nazi aggression, then from Communist aggression-that all free nations must stand together or they shall fall separately." Rejecting the "partial unity" advocated by Ohio's Bob Taft in his explosive Cincinnati speech (TIME, June...
After Oregon's Wayne Morse bolted the Republican Party, the Democratic liberals besought Johnson to throw Democratic weight behind Morse's demand for seats on important committees. Johnson decided that the Oregon maverick was a Republican problem and the Democrats should not take him over. When one Midwestern Democrat reported a Morse threat to campaign against him if the Democrats didn't come through, Johnson snapped: "You aren't trying to argue that we should give in to political blackmail...
...shippers are all boosters for the St. Lawrence Seaway. They know that what they are hauling represents only a small fraction of the overseas trade that could be carried on by Midwestern cities. One company, the Dutch Oranje line, is building a combination passenger-freighter which it hopes will be the pacesetter if the seaway project goes through...