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Most significant of all in the political battle to come was the undenied report that South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes would manage the Administration's floor fight for repeal of the embargo. After two years' agonized observation of Senate Leader Alben Barkley's dazed fumbling with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

The Issue. Other Senators believe Jimmy Byrnes could charm snakes without a flute and with his eyes closed. That talent he needed now. For no man on the other side can orate with the power and clarity and command of Borah; no one on the other side is as agile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

While a half-dozen Senators can prolong debate, in practice a real filibuster needs 15 men.*Last week Washington observers gave the Borah anti-repeal forces a minimum of 25 men, a maximum of 40. Therefore Jimmy Byrnes knew he had the most important thing-the votes-in the bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Senator Jimmy Byrnes last week wrote Franklin Roosevelt a note asking how he felt about the $125,000,000 which the House took out of WPA's new money for 1940 and allotted to PWA for heavy construction (TIME, June 26). When Jimmy Byrnes got his answer, it took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Revolving Rabbit | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Having strangled the plans of John Hanes and Henry Morgenthau to revise corporation taxes this year (TIME, May 22), Franklin Roosevelt last week executed a fast fadeaway which saved the faces (and possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Henny-Penny's Inning | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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