Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overflow crowd of reporters, photographers and Congressmen jammed the committee room for the crucial hearing before the Rules Committee. The session was delayed for 47 minutes while Martin, Majority Leader Charles Halleck and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen talked to G.O.P. committee members in Allen's private office, trying to nail down a majority vote. Tennessee's Carroll
When Halleck was finished, Dan Reed rose to reply. His face flamed anger, his bony jaw jutted, Chairman Allen offered him a chair, but Reed snapped: "I'm still able to stand." He stood, straight as an oak, while he boiled over. "This [rules] committee has no authority . . . EPT is nothing but an unlawful bandit cutting the throats of industry . . . This [hearing] may be the destruction of representative government. If that's true, this is no place for me." Reed's voice rose to a passionate shout. "What have I done in my 35 years that...
...testimony went on, Carroll Reece slipped out to take a telephone call from G.O.P. Patronage Boss Leonard Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was back a few minutes later, and not long afterward. Chairman Allen got a scribbled message from another Congressman who had been on the phone. It read: "Len Hall says Carroll's all right." Virginia's Howard Smith, the senior Democrat on the Rules Committee, leaned over to Allen. "Leo," Smith whispered, "you got the votes?" Leo nodded. Shortly afterward Allen cleared the room for the vote. On a voice vote...
...realize that voters, not understanding congressional procedure, would remember only that Democrats had helped to kill a tax popular with the party's left wing. To make the point, Martin proudly showed off a wire of support from a strange bedfellow-the C.I.O.'s legislative counsel. Leo Allen coyly reminded Democrats that expiration of EPT "would be giving Gen eral Motors $122 million-and we can't do that...
...salary by teaching aviation classes , at night, developing photos in a bathroom and writing for Popular Mechanics (at $3 to $5 an article). Raised to $32 a week in 1919, he married his childhood sweetheart, Thelma Knarr. (She divorced him in 1945, and Kindelberger is now married to Helen Allen, a onetime model...