Word: gaggings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This obvious political possibility stung the Republicans into a frenzy. Angrily cried Minority Leader Bert Snell: "This is probably the boldest attempt ever made by a political party to pay 105,000 Democratic political election day workers out of the Federal Treasury." Under gag rule Democratic leadership sandwiched in the census bill after all members had been summoned to the floor to pass a processing tax on hogs. Shrilled Massachusetts' Republican Martin: "It is eminently fitting the leadership of the House should assign this pork bill to follow the roll call on the hog bill...
...first time he categorically promised publishers that he would not try censorship: "Judging by the [news columns and editorials] in papers in every part of the country, this freedom is freer than it ever has been in our history. There has been no attempt in Washington to 'gag' news papermen or stifle editorial comment. There will be no such attempt." But Publisher Reid was concerned not only with censorship. Press freedom was also threatened, he told the Yalemen, by "demands to make expenditures which are not economically desired or possible." By that definition, the Missouri convention...
...January under a "gag rule" the House passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill providing money for pensions and government salaries in the form the Administration wanted it. But the Senate, where no gag rule prevails, upset everything by voting back the Federal pay cuts and practically all the pension cuts. The House on a second go-round restored two-thirds of the Federal pay cut, and 75% of their former pensions to "presumptives." The bill as passed did not quite wipe out the savings of the 1933 Economy Act, but it did wipe out the principle of executive control...
...cost of the whole recovery program. Shipstead, the Farmer-Laborite, 27 of the 35 Republicans, and 12 other Democrats swung in behind him. The McCarran amendment carried 41 to 40. The Administration forces realized they had suffered a serious defeat. If the House, which passed the same bill under gag rule, got a chance to vote on the McCarran proposal it would almost certainly be approved...
...thought the Bonus Boys and the Anti-Saloon League had good lobbies at the Capital. But their purposes and methods become incidental chicanery compared to the organized crime perpetrated by the retail drug concerns and their gag rule over the American press. When young girls are going blind from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias...