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...bill. Cried Illinois' Mason: "Just remember all of those billions we have given away and what good did it do us? All those foreign countries hate America. Thank God I didn't vote a penny for the giveaway program." West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey rambled for 30 minutes, then said: "Now I'll pass on rapidly to the subject at hand." Chairman Smith glanced at the Navy-type, 24-hour clock on the wall, murmured: "Thank you." A few minutes later, Smith called for a vote. His committee approved the closed rule...
When the bill moved to the House floor, the protectionists of both parties-in revolt against the official leadership of both parties-had their strategy mapped: they would try to kill the closed rule and open the bill to crippling, log-rolling amendments. West Virginia's Bailey led off: "Mr. Speaker, once again the duly elected members of the House find themselves under a threat of an undemocratic and un-American gag-rule procedure." The House seats began to fill up. Republican Leader Joe Martin slouched back in his place, a forefinger pushed up on his temple. Beside...
Clarence Brown bit his lower lip, jammed his hands in his pockets and slouched off the House floor. Cleveland Bailey charged into the House well to register a technical protest. He was over ruled. Les Arends, leaving the chamber with sweat dripping from his forehead, sighed: "And they say we don't earn...
...your indulgence I will read it." In a quiet voice, Martin read Eisenhower's letter, which 1) promised that there will be no drastic tariff cuts, and 2) said that "I deeply believe that the national interest calls for enactment of this measure." West Virginia's Cleveland Bailey made one last stand for protectionism, but he was beaten - and he knew it. He told...
Investigating health officers recalled that two small boys, Leonard Barraclough, 5, and James Bailey, 2, overlooked in the early panic, had mysteriously died right at its onset. Their respective causes of death had been reported as infectious hepatitis and epilepsy, but autopsies showed that they had actually died from lead poisoning. Finally, health officers solved the mystery: each pound of casing still contained a tenth of an ounce of lead, and the children had been breathing the lead fumes around the fireside...