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| Date: | 06 09 1954 |
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| Description: | McCarthy-Army hearings. Left to right: G. David Schine, Joseph R. McCarthy, and Roy Cohn. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wading through a throng of reporters during a visit to a farm. A Farmall 560 tractor is in the background... |
| Date: | 09 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking with reporters at LaGuardia Airport shortly after his victory over Len Schmitt in the Wisconsin Republican primary. McC... |
| Date: | 11 18 1953 |
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| Description: | After closed door hearings at the Boston Federal Building, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy talks to the press about subversive activities at the General Electri... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Francis Garrity, Jefferson County district attorney and president of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association. He is being urged to run for... |
| Date: | 02 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley presenting a block of cheese to Senator George. |
| Date: | 05 28 1959 |
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| Description: | Senators Alexander Wiley and William Proxmire posing with astronaut Donald K. Slayton and a model of a rocket. |
| Date: | 10 30 1956 |
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| Description: | Reporters crowd around Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. To Dulles' right is longtime White House correspondent Merriman Smith. |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arlene Weidenkopf, private secretary to Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thomson. |
| Date: | 01 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Attorney General Vernon Thomson, of Richland Center, is shown with his right hand raised while taking his oath of office, administered by a judge in a robe... |
| Date: | 12 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Press interview at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Identified (left to right) are the United States Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McC... |
| Date: | 05 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey (left), national selective service director, confers with his Wisconsin counterpart, Colonel Bentley Courtenay. |
| Date: | 12 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of club president Tom Stokes in suit and tie, chef's toque, pleated apr... |
| Date: | 04 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Casual portrait of Vernon Thomson seated at his desk in the State Capitol. A map of Wisconsin is mounted on the wall behind his desk. Thomson served as the... |
| Date: | 03 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Typewritten menu on Three-Star Extra stationery for a dinner given at the home of Ray and Marion Henle. Guests included Vice-President Richard Nixon and hi... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon Wallace Thompson, seated in a chair, is reading the newspaper and taking notes in the Republican Headquarters during his re-election campai... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Framed assortment of buttons, and a few stamps, representing the presidential election between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in 1956. A few of the ... |
| Date: | 04 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Indiana's Lieutenant Governor having lunch with Wisconsin officials. Left to right are: Arthur Wegner (Governor Walter Kohler's financial secretary), India... |
| Date: | 08 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Congressman Glenn Davis (R-Waukesha) chats with constituent Ervin Cady who is balancing his brimmed hat on one knee while lighting up a cigar. |
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