Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the showdown was "the night before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...anti-Wallacemen were deaf. In the hottest terms, Bailey denounced Wallace as the preceptor of wild economics, a "dangerous" man whom it would be "immoral" to confirm. The caucus broke up, with nothing but a bitter taste in everyone's mouth...
Five minutes later, in the Senate Chamber, the opposing forces were arrayed. The galleries were packed, with hundreds of standees. Bailey, belatedly gathering more ammunition, thumbed through one of Henry Wallace's books, Whose Constitution...
...Bailey bill, which empowers local draft boards to shunt men (including 4-Fs) aged 18-45 into essential industries and keep them there, was tht only legislation in sight. It was a little bedraggled by the time, last week, the House Military Affairs Committee hung it with its last amendment and finally reported it out. Now on the floor of the House, even this mild, makeshift measure faced an uncertain fate...
...services. To most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's hawk-nosed Senator William Langer, collected his farmers' mail, laid some of it before Congress as it considered the May-Bailey bill to draft 4-Fs. Samples, from Dakota farming towns...