Word: hallecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans were pleased with themselves last week. House Majority Leader Charles Halleck proclaimed over the radio: "We've accomplished a great deal in the four months since January." Congressman Halleck was so pleased that he even wagged a little levity. Why is the Senate called the Upper House? "When we cut an appropriation they up it." Halleck gagged. Everyone was in a jovial mood...
...House Appropriations Committee sliced $377.5 million off the Navy's $3.84 billion request. Total budget cuts now added up to $1.65 billion. This was a long way from the $6 billion cut which House leaders had predicted and, as Majority Leader Halleck suggested, the Senate would undoubtedly try to put some of the cuts back. But Republicans were at least trying to make good on their promises of economy...
...opponents of control had pushed through an amendment permitting any local government to kill controls whenever it wished. Then a motion to send the whole bill back to committee was approved. But at the last minute, Majority Leader Charlie Halleck rushed to the chair to postpone announcement of the results, swung enough votes to save the bill...
...intimate affair; just the Senate president pro tem, Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...oppose him as majority leader the G.O.P. quickly put in Indiana's Charles Halleck, who was once a Willkieite but has steadily become more conservative. Halleck's designation was a clear snub to the Taft forces in Congress, but it was not the clean-cut Dewey victory which some observers seemed to think. Tom Dewey had merely jumped on the Halleck bandwagon after it was well ahead...