Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sulks & Snarls. But taken in the round, the record was the full answer to Harry Truman's irresponsible blurt. Congress did not need the replies in kind that some of its members delivered. Majority Leader Charley Halleck said: "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word...
...could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...
Idle Whiskey. He became Democratic leader by wresting control of the assembly district from one James A. McQuade, member of a family known as the "thirtyfour starving McQuades." He ran for office (alderman, sheriff, etc.) more than 30 times, and "was sent back with glorious colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might...
...merely divided the Western camp, antagonized the Germans, and given ample aid & comfort to the Reds. In France the agreement produced a political and spiritual crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). German antiCommunists, the very people the move was designed to help, regarded it as an insult and an injury. German leaders meeting in Düsseldorf to discuss an increase in Ruhr coal production proclaimed self-righteously: "International control of the Ruhr is not justified, because the German authorities are themselves unanimously determined never to allow the Ruhr to become a threat to peace . . ." Cried a cocky German labor leader...
...Gentleman." "You Communists!" retorted Christian Democratic Labor Leader Umberto Tomba. "You find your recruits only among criminals and loose women!" For the moment the Chamber sat in stunned silence. The silence was broken by the hurried clatter of feet; a Communist flying squad dashed toward the Christian Democratic benches...