Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the beer bill's prompt passage by the House was chunky Representative Thomas Henry Cullen from a tough waterfront district in Brooklyn. A square-faced, hard-boiled Democrat, with a lower lip like Maurice Chevalier's, he is the House's Assistant Majority Leader. In disgrace because of his stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed...
Representative Cullen led off a three-hour debate by reciting the threadbare arguments for beer as a revenue-raiser, "a vital step toward prosperity." Drys raged and roared impotently. Swinging to his feet Missouri's stocky Claiborne announced: "As a good drinking man I'm interested in this beer bill for drinking purposes. I not only want a good glass of beer but I want a good drink of whiskey and I hope the time will come when I can walk into a decent saloon and get both." Then he sat down, chewed his cigar impatiently...
...House passed the Cullen bill 316-to-97, with 73 Republicans going Wet, 58 Democrats staying...
Already the Anti-Saloon League was preparing to test the validity of the Cullen Act before the Supreme Court. Big question: is 3.2% beer intoxicating in fact? If so, the court would be inclined to rule that the law is unconstitutional under the 18th Amendment...
...what was in store for Democratic organizations that tried to buck the White House. On the first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents and I'm too old to go back...