Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Southern Democrats rose up in the Senate to reply, in an extraordinary spate of oratory-Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith (see p. 14). They tore Joe Guffey to shreds, came close to out-&-out denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt. Senators Bailey and Smith talked threateningly about a new Southern Democratic Party...
Reverse Pyrge. Was the South really going to secede again-this time from the Democratic Party? Not even Joe Bailey thought that probable. "I have been thinking over the burden of that speech for a long time," he said afterward, "and I felt that the time had come to utter it. The important thing is not that the announcement was made. The important thing was that, for the first time in 79 years, it could be justifiably made...
...BAILEY. "And Alabama...
...BAILEY. "And Tennessee...
Senator O'Mahoney's rock-bottom argument was that, even if the industry is lily-white today, the Bailey-Van Nuys bill would be "a charter from Congress to do what they please in the future." Tongue in cheek, he also suggested two nullifying amendments to the bill, designed to make State regulation as effective as Federal antitrust procedure...