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...gentlemen," said Lattimore, "my analysis of this may be partly or wholly wrong. But if anybody says that it is disloyal or unAmerican, he is a fool or a knave...
...corn for feed. He had such a bumper crop in 1948 that he cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling all of his own corn to the Government and buying in the open market what he needed...
Most Republicans were against it. Charging that the Republicans were giving lip service to housing but undercutting it with their votes, Majority Leader John McCormack shouted: "What mockery it is, what doubletalk. One may fool the public today, but not next November, because this is going to be a live issue next fall." Republicans disregarded the threat, and so, for that matter, did 81 Democrats. The housing bill, providing close to $4.1 billion for Government loans, passed without Harry Truman's built-in feature for middle-income earners...
...speeches printed in the Congressional Record never get made on the floor of Congress; they are merely so-called "extension of remarks" by lawmakers seized with a second thought, a desire to fool some of the voters, or a fit of after-hours loquacity. The system has many faults, but at least it spared Congressmen from listening to Mississippi's ranting Dixie Demagogue John Rankin, who filled 13 columns of the Congressional Record one day this month with a debased attack on FEPC. Sample quote...
...hadn't he signed up with the C.P. himself? "I was no fool," he said. "It wasn't a question of agreement or disagreement with the Communist Party so much except that it would subject me to deportation...