Word: halleck
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...record as firmly opposed to federal aid to education. To support this politically motivated position, they pointed out that the bill did not require states to take the responsibility called for by the Administration's school building program (TIME, Jan. 23). Said Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck: "This bill never was the Administration program...
...said a good word for the candidate: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey (who spoke at a $100-a-plate Philadelphia G.O.P. dinner), National Chairman Leonard Hall, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators Edward Martin and James Duff, and Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck...
G.O.P. Leaders Joe Martin and Charlie Halleck were quick to recognize Cannon's blunder and to line up the Republican votes in disciplined ranks. Top Democrats were flabbergasted when they realized what Clarence Cannon had done. After three hours of debate with nearly 50 heated speeches, the House defeated the Cannon plan, 198 to 169. Having botched matters thoroughly, the Democrats let the bill-including the funds for the TVA-Dixon-Yates link-slide through on a voice vote, and glumly sent it on to the Senate...
After speaking in Williamsport, Pa. Indiana's haggis-faced Republican Representative Charles A. Halleck, House minority leader, had some time on his hands, hustled off to a nearby trout stream. Casting briefly, he soon hooked and netted a 12-in. specimen, later beamed upon it as if it were at least a 12-ft. marlin...
...Republican membership of the House was in a fury by the time the bill reached the floor. Indiana's Republican Representative Charles Halleck, his face flushed, his voice pitched high, said: "I suppose blackjacking is a strong word, and if it is unparliamentary, I will withdraw it. But coming from Indiana, it well looks to me like this is a sort of blackjacking operation to put the President and a lot of us over the barrel by saying, 'Well, if you do not take this $20, you are jeopardizing the excise extension and the 52% corporation...