Word: hallecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Certainly Not." Then all ears were cocked for Tom Dewey. Last week he was busy entertaining 19 of the 28-man New York G.O.P. delegation to Congress, and taking an active part in the campaign to make Indiana's Charles Halleck the House Majority Leader. Was he ready to announce his candidacy? "Certainly not." Did that mean "certainly not ready?" Digging deep, Tom dredged up a slightly stale gag: "Certainly not-period...
...went over to the swank Sulgrave Club, where Chairman Reece (standing with his wife in the receiving line) pump-handled the visiting firemen: Connecticut's hand some new Representative John Davis Lodge and wife (onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti); retiring liaison man John Danaher; Indiana's Charles Halleck, probably next House majority leader; and all the other GOPsters from far & near who put up the cash and get out the vote...
Solidarity. One other matter which Republicans chewed over was their own internal organization. Joe Martin, as expected, will be Speaker of the House. The rivalry between Indiana's Charlie Halleck and Ohio's Clarence Brown for House majority leader will be fought out spiritedly; other candidates may complicate the race. But there was no sign of any deep developing rifts among the triumphant G.O.P. leaders. Vandenberg will preside over the Senate as president pro tem. Elderly (69) Wallace White, ineffectual minority leader during G.O.P. underdog days, will become majority leader by courtesy. The G.O.P. spark plug will...
Editorial writers and columnists, thumbing their history books, clucked dubiously. In a front-page open letter, however, the New Dealing Chicago Sun urged the President to take "this patriotic and courageous step." The Republican New York Sun replied by quoting Indiana's Republican Representative Halleck: this is not our way of doing things...
...majority leader would have to be elected. Charlie Halleck, of Indiana, thought that was already decided: "Hell, I am the next majority leader. Clarence Brown 'hasn't got a chance." But Brown, who is National Committee Chairman Carroll Recce's man, might not know it. Joe had to hammer out harmony...