Word: hebert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louisiana's Dixiecrat Congressman F. Edward Hebert put it in language any politician could understand. "So the proposition is very clear," he said on the House floor "Your vote is for sale for a job or jobs." It was a blunt denunciation of the price tag Harry Truman had put on political patronage (see above...
...sausages, had come to a screeching pause. Its legislative teeth had ground into a major Harry Truman campaign promise: to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. On the floor, Truman Democrats were locked over the issue with a stubborn and derisive coalition of Republicans and the Southern colleagues of Edward Hebert. Labor agents and lobbyists - close to 400 of them - packed the gal lery, patrolled the corridors. So did as many lobbyists of industry...
Majority Leader John McCormack wrathfully replied to Hebert. What right did Hebert have to complain, McCormack wanted to know, since "he actively and openly supported a splinter party of the Democratic Party . . . Only through tolerance is he sitting here as a member of the Democratic Party...
When he attacked the House Un-American Activities Committee, claiming that the group "has raised more questions than it has settled, and has been unfair in its procedure," Strout found an opponent in Hebert, a former member of that body...
...Hebert declared that a blanket indictment of the Un-American Activities group is unfair. "Individuals, not the committee, are responsible for any misdeeds that have occurred," he said. Elaborating, he attacked political motives of some committee members...