Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which were of the Administration's own making, President Truman last week sent a message to Congress demanding repeal of three sections of the Defense Production Act, which he had signed under protest. The three sections which did "the greatest damage to price controls," he said, were: the Capehart amendment, allowing manufacturers to add increased costs to their prices; the Herlong amendment, allowing retailers to charge the same percentage markups as before Korea, and the Butler-Hope amendment, banning slaughtering quotas in the meat business. Those amendments, said the President, may cost consumers "billions and billions of dollars...
...work of a Southern Democrat-Republican coalition against him, so he couldn't really put the blame simply on the G.O.P. He tried to get the same effect by concentrating his fire on two Republican amendments: the Butler-Hope amendment, wiping out slaughter controls on beef, and the Capehart amendment guaranteeing business a pre-Korea profit, which the President characterized as "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake...
...occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether a Senator holds up his hand. I wish to say that I do not like such tactics," sniffed Capehart...
...broad enough to include the eastern internationalists in the G.O.P (generally more interested in Europe than Asia), such forthright Republicans as California's Bill Knowland (who favors the decisive course in both Asia and Europe) and such high & dry isolationists as Indiana's Homer Capehart and Illinois' Everett Dirksen (who frequently criticize U.S. involvement in either Korea or Europe), some changes had to be made fast. Out from Martin's office went the new word: forget impeachment talk for the time being, stop talking about the Formosa question, and concentrate on a demand that MacArthur come...
...resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter for him, and left it on his desk for signature. Demanded Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart: "In other words, he wanted to make you the fall guy?" Said Dunham sadly: "I think that I was to be the goat...