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...House, the Speaker will be one who has been there before: Massachusetts' durable Joe Martin, Speaker in the 80th Congress. The majority leadership probably will go to the man who held it in the 80th: Charles Halleck of Indiana...
...Foreign Affairs received merely a letter and press handouts from the department. When the resolution of inquiry came back to the floor, the House shouted down an attempt to drop it, instead set up a cry of protest about the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. G.O.P. Whip Charlie Halleck, scenting an upset, scurried around to line up votes. On a roll call, the House shattered custom by voting 189 (160 Republicans, 29 Democrats) to 143 to keep the resolution alive and formally to "direct" Dean Acheson to report...
...many Congressmen preferred the system of killing bills by smothering them in the Rules Committee rather than having to vote on them. Said Republican Charles Halleck solemnly: the Rules
...before the House was almost a carbon copy of the housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...
...extension of the draft by a one-vote margin on the eve of war in 1941 had its members been thrown into such an irresponsible panic. In the showdown, the economy-shouting Republicans had looked even worse than the Democrats. Republicans had followed their leaders, Joseph Martin and Charles Halleck, in voting 2 to 1 for Rankin's raid on the Treasury. Democrats, whose leaders stood fast against the bill, voted 3 to 2 to stop...