Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours overdue and I want him down quick. He's got to vote. You better be awful sure he's not stacked up there." Minutes after Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson's telephone call one afternoon last week, Minnesota's airbound Senator Hubert Humphrey landed and was whisked across the Potomac in a Capitol police squad car, sirens ayowl. He arrived on the Senate floor, just in time to vote nay on the key Capehart amendment to the public-housing bill. That he did-although by then Johnson no longer needed the vote-was the result...
...whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared that it bothered...
...amendment to restore the Administration's 35,000-unit program, and had laughed, "Lyndon, this time I'm going to rub your nose in it." Now Lyndon was busily wheedling more votes, and gaining time to do it in the name of senatorial courtesy, i.e., fairness to Humphrey...
After Capehart's nose was rubbed, 38 to 44, the Democratic bill glided safely to a 60-to-25 decision, and a grateful Hubert Humphrey jumped to his feet to praise Johnson. Said Hubert: "His talents, his personality and the strength of his character are dedicated toward making the legislative process work." Added IIllinois' Paul Douglas: "Extraordinary political virtuosity...
...Government last week corrected two errors. The Senate followed the House in repealing Sections 452 and 462 of the 1954 tax law, better known as "Humphrey's Bloopers." The two sections, sponsored by Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, had allowed corporations to postpone paying taxes on prepaid income or reserves needed for future expenses until they were actually used, and to defer taxes on income paid in advance for services or rents (TIME, April 4). The Treasury reckoned that the immediate drop in 1955 revenues would run a mere $50 million. Instead, revenue began dropping at the rate of nearly...