Word: hallecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solid & Orderly. Massachusetts' Joe Martin, a politician's politician who as leader of the opposition has had little to do in the last decade except try to keep his guerrillas in hand, would reap his reward and become Speaker of the House. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, a repentant Willkieite now in the Chicago Tribune fold, would become Majority Leader. Illinois' Leo E. Allen, an undistinguished but faithful GOPster, would become chairman of the powerful Rules Committee which controls the House's business...
...Needle. Buoyed by his visit home, Slaughter kept right on slaughtering. Last week, along with Indiana's Republican Charles Halleck, he slipped a hot needle into the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Into a House resolution to check into 1946 election expenditures, they inserted a clause to include "labor organizations and committees thereof...
...doubt. Not even President Roosevelt ever asked as much at one sitting. The scenery is new and there is a little better decoration, and he does dish it out a little easier. But it is just a plain case of out-New Dealing the New Deal." Said Representative Charlie Halleck, Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman: "This is the kickoff; this begins the [Congressional] campaign of '46. For the Democrats, it's just more billions and more bureaus...
...same car were political advisers: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
Willkie, said the statement, was nominated "by the Hitler formula" with the calculating support of Isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, anti-New Deal Congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the Governor of the 'German' State of the Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress...