Word: hallecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's most thumping defeat in the House came on his public-housing request, but the Speaker salvaged enough to deliver a face-saver for the Administration. As Charlie Halleck explained the trouble, he could not ask Michigan's Jesse Wolcott, the committee chairman involved, to sponsor a public-housing bill, because "Jesse spent years barnstorming around the country denouncing public housing. So did I, for that matter." When the bill came back from the Senate for the settling of differences between the two Houses, Speaker Martin moved in with a compromise formula. It was accepted and last...
...Feet in the Fire." The team of Martin and Halleck is a powerful combination. While Martin is making tactful requests, Charlie Halleck. ruddy-nosed and glint-eyed, is charging up and down the aisles of the House chamber, telling his troops, "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one. The President needs your support. So do I." The session's crowning personal success for Halleck was the farm bill, which he saved from defeat under farm-bloc opposition to Agriculture Secretary Benson's sliding price scale of 75% to 90% of parity. Halleck...
...contributed to the defeat: 1) the American Medical Association opposed the bill on the grounds that it meant more "Federal Government control"; 2) the C.I.O. opposed it because it was "inadequate"; 3) a number of Republicans opposed it simply to show their independence of able, vigorous Majority Leader Charlie Halleck, who has been skillfully steering the Eisenhower program through the House. A minor revolt had been brewing against Halleck for some time, primarily because he had pushed House Republicans so hard on the tax and farm programs; the health insurance plan looked like only a relatively important bill and also...
...hours before the voting began, Republican leaders in the House would not have given a wet wheat beard for the Benson farm program's chances. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, who has been the Administration's strong right arm in the House, conceded to friends that he was licked. Then the House noisily pulled the biggest surprise of the 83rd Congress by voting down a continuation of rigid 90% of parity price supports on the basic crops. It approved, instead, a system of flexible supports pegged on 82½ to 90% of parity. This was a compromise...
...Speaker Joe Martin, 69, told Republican colleagues that if the G.O.P. loses the House this year, he will step down as party leader. Massachusetts' Martin said flatly: "I will not be the minority leader again." His heir apparent as House Republican leader: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck, present majority leader. Implicit in Martin's statement was a decision-if the Republicans lose control this fall-not to run for re-election to the House...