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...Banging Gavel. But before its final passage, interim aid had rough going. In the House, Republican isolationists had worked furiously to slash or hamstring the bill. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana led the attack...
Such oratory did no more than fray congressional tempers. When Michigan's Bartel J. Jonkman proposed that the amount of aid be cut to $290 million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise...
...group has asked all undergraduates to telegraph Speaker Joseph W. Martin and House Majority Leader Charles W. Halleck '07 from the House and Union booths, requesting their support behind the measure...
Attendance dwindled as Congressmen gossiped in the cloakrooms, began checking out for the weekend. Democrats slyly turned over their speaking time to Republicans, who had to send out search parties for reinforcements. But Majority Leader Charlie Halleck was adamant: "If the Democrats want to rubber-stamp this program, they can do it. We want this program to be debated and threshed out before the votes are taken...
...political issue and because he had called the session without a by-your-leave, Republicans felt free to declare the session wide open. One of the first issues many of them wanted to take up was tax reduction, which the President had twice vetoed. Said House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "Tax reduction ... is urgently needed if we are to have increased production...