Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston strengthened a report that the priest had been engaging in a third-party flirtation with Joseph B. Ely. That two-time Governor of Massachusetts quickly denied knowing anything about it. Six hours before Father Coughlin went on the air, Representative Lemke, House member of the famed team of Frazier & Lemke, whose last bill proposed to lift farm mortgages with $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks (TIME, May 25), announced himself the Union Party's candidate for President. Picked to run with this Yale law graduate as Vice-Presidential candidate was a Harvardman, Thomas Charles O'Brien...
...know quite well that when inflation of the kind and character embodied in the Frazier-Lemke Act is adopted, commodity prices rise but wages stand still. We cannot subscribe to this sort of eco-nomic philosophy. Labor would suffer reduction in living standards, reduced buying power, and the problem of unemployment would become more acute...
...believe," cried this Texan, "the membership of this House is entitled to know where Mr. Green and his committee gets authority to express themselves as representing the A. F. of L. against the Frazier-Lemke bill...
...hours the debate grew more & more bitter as it grew more & more certain that the Frazier-Lemke bill was doomed. Near the end Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Richard Thompson Buckler turned violently on the bill's opponents: "You big shots will get credit for killing the bill. But you little fellows will just get hell. You will find someone else warming your seats here next year, while you run around begging a ticket...
With the liveliest debate of the session off their chests, Representatives finally voted down the Frazier-Lemke bill. 235-10-142. Imperturbably Representative Lemke announced: "We won-because there will be eliminations in the November contests." Next day he reintroduced his defeated bill, "to attempt to clear up misrepresentations of the bill which have been spread throughout the country...