Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Virginia's Harry Byrd, who has rigorously avoided personalities in his ten years in the Senate. Senator Byrd felt moved to answer a statement made by Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Guffey. He notably ignored Senatorial courtesy, referring to the Pennsylvania Senator only as "Guffey...
...BYRD: "He [Guffey] charged that: a) northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd had conspired to deprive the armed services of America of the right to vote; and b) that this alleged conspiracy was the 'most unpatriotic and unholy alliance that has occurred in the United States Senate since the League of Nations for peace of the world was defeated...
...This charge made against the 42 members of the Senate, Guffey did not have the courage and fairness to make on the Senate floor in the presence of those he maligned and misrepresented...
...have I risen on the floor of the Senate to answer an attack made upon me, but never in my ten years of service in the Senate has the provocation been so great. . . . There is not one iota of truth in a single part of the statement made by Guffey. ... I do not even know Joe Pew, and never had any communication with...
...experience in the affairs of the United States Senate I have never known a more deliberately offensive or a more untruthful charge to be made against a group of fellow Senators than this charge made by Guffey...