Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety-five Ships. There was much flexing of muscles as the GOPsters snuffled under every stone that might conceal Democratic skulduggery. Maine's Owen Brewster gnashed his teeth at a report that Government agencies were destroying their records before his War Investigating Committee could get its hands on them...
Butler by no means stood alone. Owen Brewster of Maine and Albert Hawkes of New Jersey joined the attack. "Reciprocity" was a misnomer for State's bargains in the past, said Hawkes. The U.S. had more nearly complied "with the scriptural admonition that it is more blessed to give than to receive...
...Republicans' position was this: they wanted to continue the committee (the old Truman Committee), despite the fact that it was not included in the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act, passed at the last session. The man who would head it would be Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to rake back over those years when the Republicans were outside looking in. But authorizing one special committee, Democrats argued, meant opening the door to many "special" committees and violating the spirit of the reorganization act. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry was already knocking at the door with another...
Laughter from the Galleries. Brewster was interested in Tydings' comment on "this measure being of a bastard parentage." He thought it was rather strong language, "particularly as the origin of the committee was in the gentleman who is now President of the United States." He recalled that 13 Democrats had voted against the reorganization act-"with the spirit of which they are now so much concerned"-and 17 were not interested enough to show up for the vote. On the other hand, he recalled, 23 Republicans had voted for the measure...
...will verify it," said Brewster. "I am very sure I was." Silence descended on the chamber while Brewster consulted the record. The next voice was Brewster's: "I find I was one of those not voting...