Word: hallecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Means Chairman Harold Knutson, who already has his own $5.6 billion tax-reduction bill on the fire, cried: "My God, I didn't know inflation had gone that far. Tom Pendergast paid only $2 a vote and now Truman proposes to pay $40." Cracked House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "What, no mule...
...Senator Ralph Flanders said he would introduce a standby meat-rationing bill. Senator Taft is on record for a meat-rationing bill-if needed-but only a severe meat shortage would bring about sufficient support for such a measure. The G.O.P., in the words of House Majority Leader Charles Halleck, would stand for and advocate "the American voluntary way of life...
...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...