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...blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like me to understand." It was "the most complicated monstrosity" Bennett Champ Clark had ever seen...
Pennsylvania. Big unanswered question about the race for Governor was: Would bald, suave, ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt be a Democratic candidate? Bullitt said neither yes nor no. Democratic Senator Joseph F. Guffey, whose machine is hard-boiled, was saying plenty: he wants no silk stockings in the race...
...Decided to send a representative to Scranton, Pa. to survey possible defense-plant locations near the hard-coal source, after Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey told him: Even if anthracite mines were at peak production, "there would still be 60,000 too many miners in that area...
Senator Pepper suggested that the Neutrality Act could be repealed in the way that the Lend-Lease Act automatically repealed the Johnson Act. Senator Guffey spoke for convoys: "We face the alternative of convoying now or fighting later." Old Senator Norris urged the transfer of warships to Britain-"now, if we can turn the tide with...
Last week 50 Senators and Representatives, led by Senator Taft, publicly organized a bloc pledged to "unalterable opposition" to U.S. convoys "by whatever name they may be called." In the Senate, when Pennsylvania's Guffey spoke for convoys, Senator Tobey answered him, shaking his fist in the direction of the White House: "Mr. Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Mr. President, Mr. Chief Executive . . . keep your hands off the Congress of the United States!" Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he was opposed to convoys. An Associated Press poll of the Senate showed...