Word: guffey
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...with the mails, a subject which the committee later voted to drop. In fighting fettle, the tightlipped, hooknosed, bespectacled steelman put on an exciting show. Having read a spiced-up version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from Philip Murray and Senator Guffey that the steelmen did have an oral agreement with C.I.O...
...Murray is a liar to the best of my knowledge and belief and always has been," cracked Steelman Girdler. "Senator Guffey doesn't know what he's talking about...
Chairman McKellar admonished Mr. Girdler that Mr. Guffey as a Senator was entitled to respect. Mr. Girdler: "I don't call it disrespectful to say that a Senator does not know what he's talking about...
...striking thing about this departing Court is that although in the first three years of the New Deal it invalidated law after law-NRA, AAA, hot oil, Guffey Coal-and upheld only one of importance - devaluation and the cancelation of the gold clause - it has not since last October overruled the New Deal on a single major case. Instead, it upheld in the past year: the arms embargo in the Chaco War, the new Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Wagner Labor Law, the Social Security Law. Yet it was not until this winter that...
...with full steam and a clear track. By last week the Senate had averaged less than three hours' work per day, meeting on only about half the available days. The House had done little better. Between them they had passed just two major measures-the Neutrality and Guffey Coal Acts-and both were revampings of earlier statutes. Even in the matter of routine appropriations they had finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside of the necessary money bills and some decision on Court rejuvenation, all the rest...