Word: montana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked out his own grading system, awarding a top of five points for "excellent'' press coverage of state legislatures, and from his survey concluded that New Hampshire and Utah had the best coverage, with 4.71 points each. Lowest were Delaware (1.33). which has three daily newspapers, and Montana (1.77) with 1 8. most of which are either controlled by giant Anaconda copper company or subject to its influence. Complained one Montana representative: "We are victims of a completely controlled press, which edits, slants or completely omits any news coverage at will.'' Most weeklies in their areas...
...after the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees voted to reword the resolution granting President Eisenhower the authority he wants to act in the Middle East, New Jersey's Republican H. Alexander Smith met Montana's Democrat Mike Mansfield in the offices of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Mike," said Smith, with obvious exasperation, "just what did you accomplish with your amendment...
Reflected Bitterness. During debate on the Senate floor, Montana's able Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield made a noble effort to raise Democratic argument to a constructive level. He proposed that the Congress as well as the Executive should not only make clear that the U.S. will oppose Communist aggression in the Middle East "within our constitutional processes," but that the U.S. will give some long-range direction to its foreign aid program, support U.N. police action in the Middle East, and redouble its efforts through the U.N. "to curb" Soviet and other arms traffic in the area. Reflecting bitterness...
...string correspondents when he came to the staff in 1951 as Denver bureau chief. Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines...
Support from Missouri. Much of the doubting was predictable: right-wing Republicans were inclined against granting additional foreign economic aid; some liberal Democrats held that Eisenhower had fooled the people during the 1956 campaign and that he should now "face facts." Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield of Montana wondered whether a "serious constitutional question" was involved, to wit, whether the Congress should commit itself in advance to "a presidential declaration of war." Considering these doubts, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington hoped that the Congress would authorize "whatever is necessary for the President to have in order...