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mayweed (iou) and Dirksen, Everett McKinley (sh)


mayweed (iou)



mayweed noun. M16.
[from MAYTHE, MAYTHEN + WEED noun1.]
Any of various kinds of wild camomile found as weeds of cultivated ground; esp. (more fully scentless mayweed) Tripleurospermum inodorum and (more fully stinking mayweed) Anthemis cotula.

Dirksen, Everett McKinley (sh)




born Jan. 4, 1896, Pekin, Ill., U.S.
died Sept. 7, 1969, Washington, D.C.

U.S. politician.

After serving in World War I, he returned to Illinois to pursue business interests. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1932-48), where he voted against most New Deal measures and remained an isolationist until the U.S. entered World War II. He later served in the U.S. Senate (1950-69), becoming minority leader in 1959. He was noted for his oratorical style. Though a conservative, he helped secure passage of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act.