Word: knowland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House had voted for a $6 billion slash. Senate Leader Bob Taft wanted a $4.5 billion cut. But young William Fife Knowland, the junior Senator from California, was determined to have $3 billion of the budget earmarked for reduction of the astronomical national debt, and that could not be done if the Senate approved the cut advocated by Ohio's Taft...
...back bench, Knowland waited respectfully until Taft had finished. Then he rose and very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated...
...reckoned without Knowland's determination. Disarmingly, Knowland argued that the Senate ought to be willing to reduce the debt by 1%-or $2.6 billion...
...logic-and the votes-on his side. In the end even Taft capitulated. The Knowland amendment passed...
Governor Warren of California appointed Bill Knowland to the Senate in 1945 to pay off an old political debt to his influential father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland. Young Knowland had had an unspectacular career as state assemblyman and senator, had done better as executive committee chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was an assistant publisher of the Tribune, the father of three, and an indefatigable joiner and organizer of charity drives. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he had risen to the rank of major...