Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican leaders fought just as hard. Hoping desperately for a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that could push the Herlong substitute through, Minority Leader Charles Halleck lashed the whip as never before. "This is the big test," Halleck told a Republican caucus on the day of vote on the Herlong substitute. "This [Rains bill] is a budget-busting bill if ever there was one-by hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Crafty Attempt. On the House floor, just before the vote, Majority Leader John McCormack was equally impassioned. Here, he said, were two philosophies-"the philosophy of the dollar and . . . the philosophy of human values." Minutes later, the House rejected the Herlong bill, 203 to 177. Charlie Halleck lost only six or seven of the voting Republicans, but such was the effectiveness of the Rayburn-McCormack effort that Southern Democrats did not cross over in nearly enough numbers...
...Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators' offices to enlist support. An informal tally last week showed 46 Senators favoring Strauss, 45 against-and seven key votes undecided. Among those undecided was Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, whose decision might well make the difference. But Johnson was in no hurry to make up his mind: he planned to study the long hearing record this week, probably will bring the Strauss confirmation to a vote next week...
...chauffeured Cadillac, heading slowly toward the Mayflower Hotel, where Truman was staying. By the time the two old friends separated that night, they had agreed to use their party power and prestige to promote either Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington or Texas' Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate...
...Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices are stable because the government holds down wages, but one-third of Portugal's 9,000,000 people live in villages with neither paved roads nor electricity. Last week Lisbon was afire with reports that the old leader, hurt and bewildered by mounting criticism, was thinking of stepping down...