Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacksonville, and throw his weight around in the state government. In 1948, with two other moneybags, Johnston tossed $450,000 into the campaign kitty of fun-loving Politician Fuller Warren. At first, this seemed a good bet: Warren was elected governor over a Fort Pierce citrus grower named Dan McCarty...
...long-term basis, the picture was different. When the Kefauver committee finished nosing around Florida in 1950, it concluded: After making a huge contribution to Warren's campaign, "Johnston and his tracks seem to enjoy immunity from state-level inquiry." Last year, using the Kefauver ammunition, Dan McCarty got elected governor. He wasted no time in framing a proposal that would hurt: an increase in the state's take at dog-racing tracks from 5% to an average of 7.07%, at the expense of the track, not the bettor. Although Johnston's lobbyists almost got the bill...
Early next morning, Dan Reed caught the next psychological blow. A secretary called from the office of House Speaker Joe Martin and said: "The speaker is calling a meeting of the Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee for 1:30 this afternoon. Will Mr. Reed be present?" It sounded like an innocent question, but Dan Reed now knew for sure that Joe Martin was ready to move in, if necessary with all the speaker's power, to back Ike's program...
...Dan Reed quickly rounded up the Republicans on his own committee, who realized that their prestige would be seriously hurt if the House leadership made a complete end run around them. Said Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Dick Simpson: "Let's grab the ball." Unanimously, the 14 agreed to hold hearings on extending the excess profits tax, as Ike requested...
...time Joe Martin called his meeting, he knew that Dan Reed was weakening. Both Martin and G.O.P. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck poured a generous pitcher of political syrup. There had been a lot of talk about undercutting his old buddy, Dan Reed, said Joe, and everybody surely knew that was just talk. He respected Dan's position, and wanted to talk to all the committee's Republicans on the President's proposals. He made it clear that the Republican leadership was ready to go down the line for the President...