Word: chan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa, old-line Democratic Isolationist Guy M. Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat vacated by pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationist Homer Bone went to honey-haired Congressman Warren Magnuson, a 1,000% New Dealer...
...Senate Military Affairs Committee started hearings on the size of the Army (see p. 16), said he would not make up his mind until he had "all the evidence." His committee also considered lengthening the work week (but did not say how). Cracked South Dakota's Senator Chan Gurney: "If you have 18,000,000 men in industry working 40 hours a week to produce a given amount of goods, you could get the same amount from 12,000,000 working 60 hours a week, thereby freeing 6,000,000 for the armed forces...
Word by word, so that each might sink in, Chan Gurney read the Chief of Staff's blunt memo...
More soberly, more slowly, Chan Gurney went on with General Marshall's attack on O'Daniel's proposal: "It means either too old or too late. If the amendment is adopted, the Army will be forced to complete its organization with men too old to do the job efficiently, or wait for the lapse of a year's time before it can fight...
When he finished Chan Gurney knew he had made no dent in his 39 opponents' convictions. Two days had they argued that Army & Navy heads are not infallible, that Allies should bear their share of the war burden, that 18-and 19-year-old men are too young for bloody combat. Nobody thought to mention that most teen-agers were raring...