Word: hatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter, the Senate passed Hatch Bill II, prohibiting political activity by State employes who are paid in whole or in part from Federal funds. Many a Senator voted for it, for the simple, political reason that he was confident it would never pass the House. Experts gave the bill no better than a 10-to-1 chance. At this point scrappy Jack Dempsey stepped in, told his friends: "I'm going to pass that bill...
...Hatch Bill never had the support of the Administration. It was strenuously opposed by the Democratic leaders in the House. Its most formidable opponent was Texas' old, respected Hatton Sumners, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where the bill reposed. The Committee, horrified by the bill's proposed reforms, held a secret ballot, announced a vote of 14-to-10 to table the measure. Congressman Dempsey thereupon raised Congress' roof by announcing that 13 members told him afterwards they had voted for the bill. He started a petition to extricate the bill from the Committee. Embarrassed Congressmen...
...bills, Jack Dempsey, hale & hearty at 61, indicated that he would leave the House, run for the Senate in the fall. His opponent: New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, whose relatives were once involved in a WPA scandal (they were later tried and acquitted), thoroughly disapproved of the Hatch Bill from the start...
...Saltersgate. Captain Stubbs told me to go to the first hatch. This hold was to be my living quarters until we reached Gibraltar. We started from Cannes in the evening and arrived at Marseille the next morning...
...Kreger '16, David P. Morgan '16, Walter W. Weld '16, Alexander Winsor '16, Robert Baldwin '17, Graham B. Blaine '17, Clement K. Stodder '17, S. Abbot Smith '18, William B. Snow '18, Thomas D. Cabot '19, Francis A. Caswell '19, Henry C. Flower, Jr. '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Frederic K. Bullard '20, Frederic C. Church, Jr. '20, Richard Saltonstall '20, Edward L. Bigelow '21, Henry H. Faxon '21, Dwight P. Robinson...