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Harry Truman led the Democratic prospects with 64 votes. Right behind were Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas with 63, and Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Byrd...
...Bouquets to Byrd, Douglas, Ellender, Fulbright, Gillette, O'Mahoney, Robertson, Duff and Ferguson. Boo-kays to the rest...
...unintimidated nine: Democrats Byrd (Va.) Douglas (ILL.), Ellender (La.), Fulbright (Ark.), Gillette (Iowa), O'Mahoney (Wyo.) and Robertson (Va.); Republicans Duff (Pa.) and Ferguson (Mich...
Congressional opposition was already building up to the $8.5 billion appropriation. Ohio's Taft wants the money spread over two years. Illinois' Douglas wants it shaved by $1 billion. Such influential, economy-minded members as Georgia's George and Virginia's Byrd had joined in the demand for a cut. An old Administration stalwart, Texas' Tom Connally, in one of his tempestuous outbursts, accused ECA of "squeezing money out of our people and spreading it all over the world to take care of those wobbling little countries in the Orient...
After the first charge, as Honeycutt's 6 ft. 3 in. frame sagged limply in the chair, Mrs. Byrd said: "I'm not nervous. I don't know why I wanted to see it. I just can't explain it." Another surge of electricity stiffened Honeycutt's body and he was dead...