Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's scrappy, white-haired Representative John J. Dempsey, who wrangled the Hatch Act through a balky House last July, found out that there are more ways than one of killing a cat. Behind the well-oiled State machine of District Judge David Chavez Jr. (who sent Dempsey to Congress), Brother Dennis Chavez won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator by a whisker. Roared Dempsey : "[There will be] 30 to 40 FBI agents in Santa Fe by nightfall. . . . The people have been intimidated...
...specified in his contract that all players would be kept on the payroll as long as himself. A middle-aged Frank Merriwell, he neither drinks nor smokes, maintains a sporting shrine in his Brentwood home near Hollywood. Among the trophies on display in the shrine are the gloves Dempsey used to knock out Willard, the shoes Paddock wore when he broke the 100-yard dash record, the bat Babe Ruth employed when he knocked out his 60th home run in one season...
...House. Its most formidable opponent was Texas' old, respected Hatton Sumners, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where the bill reposed. The Committee, horrified by the bill's proposed reforms, held a secret ballot, announced a vote of 14-to-10 to table the measure. Congressman Dempsey thereupon raised Congress' roof by announcing that 13 members told him afterwards they had voted for the bill. He started a petition to extricate the bill from the Committee. Embarrassed Congressmen stayed away from Mr. Dempsey's petition in droves. Back he went to the Committee members, wheedled, cajoled...
...fight was not yet won. Dempsey had to get the measure through the Rules Committee before it could reach the floor of the House. To Rules Committee members he said: "I'm a member of this committee and I want you men to give me this rule just because it's me." They gave him enough votes, and at last the bill was sent to the House. There Hatton Sumners made a final, vitriolic attack on it. With unfading zeal Mr. Dempsey stuck to his guns. The bill passed, 243-to-122. At week...
Having jacked his legislative score to an even 100 bills, Jack Dempsey, hale & hearty at 61, indicated that he would leave the House, run for the Senate in the fall. His opponent: New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, whose relatives were once involved in a WPA scandal (they were later tried and acquitted), thoroughly disapproved of the Hatch Bill from the start...