Word: colmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down on the diffusion of membership, bills supported by Representatives Colmer and Freylinghuysen advocate the use of reports on revenue, without including Ways and Means Committee members in the policy committee. If the House passed this plan, resulting friction from jealous "revenooers" would nullify the whole purpose...
Opposition flared forthwith. Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, a Rules committeeman from Pascagoula (fisheries, textiles), leaned far back in his chair and drawled: "Isn't it true that a closed rule is really a gag?" Jere Cooper looked hurt, answered the attack with a defense of the trade bill itself. Said he: "The studies show that where a product is in bad shape, it is not so much the tariff rate that is causing it, but normal changes in tastes and customs. The felt-hat industry has complained. Well, it's not the tariff that...
...Mussolini's son bragged-bragged, mind you-about trade with us, and where did it go? To make bombs to rain down on poor innocent women and children." Down went Reed's fist, papers and pencils flew helter-skelter, and Noah Mason chortled. Mississippi's Colmer, in an artistic piece of understatement, remarked to Reed: "Well, I take it you're opposed to the bill?" Reed replied in kind: "I lean that way." Noah Mason, who knew that Reed was as bitterly opposed to the bill as he, doubled over in laughter, nearly fell...
...told," drawled Mississippi's red-haired Bill Colmer, "that [FEPC] would prevent discrimination in private employment because of race, color, creed or national origin". . . but the proponents ... do not point out that it is the most flagrant proposal for the regimentation of business...