Word: halleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blough, U.S. Steel's chairman, who will have the top say about how much in raises-if anything-will go into the pay envelopes of thousands of steelworkers. See BUSINESS. ¶is for Charlie, Halleck by name...
...Republican leaders fought just as hard. Hoping desperately for a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that could push the Herlong substitute through, Minority Leader Charles Halleck lashed the whip as never before. "This is the big test," Halleck told a Republican caucus on the day of vote on the Herlong substitute. "This [Rains bill] is a budget-busting bill if ever there was one-by hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Crafty Attempt. On the House floor, just before the vote, Majority Leader John McCormack was equally impassioned. Here, he said, were two philosophies-"the philosophy of the dollar and . . . the philosophy of human values." Minutes later, the House rejected the Herlong bill, 203 to 177. Charlie Halleck lost only six or seven of the voting Republicans, but such was the effectiveness of the Rayburn-McCormack effort that Southern Democrats did not cross over in nearly enough numbers...
...Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska's Carl Curtis) the Senate overrode the veto 64 to 29 with two votes to sp: re. But Indiana's Charles Halleck, the shrewd minority leader in the House, had already taken a reading, saw a fighting chance to defeat the bill and sustain Ike's perfect veto record...
Without waiting for the official veto message to reach the Capitol, Halleck and his whip, Illinois' Les Arends, had gone to work. All weekend they pestered and pressured their reluctant colleagues in the teeth of immense home-front opposition. Telephones buzzed and wires poured in from rural constituencies, urging passage of the bill. Worried Republicans from farm districts pleaded that a nay vote would be political harakiri, but Halleck sternly told them that it was a case of Ike or REA's Ellis-take your choice...