Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, Lindsay Warren made Reorganization, model 1939, a good deal less drastic than Reorganization 1938. He also made it politically possible-just barely possible-to get the bill passed...
...Doones. Lindsay Warren won his bill's crucial battle on the House floor with one brief, effective literary allusion. When Representative Kleberg of Texas tried to require that the President's reorganization be approved by a positive vote of Congress (rather than subject to a negative veto), Mr. Warren asked his colleagues: "Have you forgotten the story of Lorna Doone...
...novel, when outraged citizens marched against the Doones-outlaws who levied tribute on the surrounding country-they set up cannon on the mountain ridges on both sides of Doone Valley but, falling into discord, fired across the Valley at each other while the Doones sallied out unscathed below. Boomed Lindsay Warren...
Last week in the Senate, Lindsay Warren's good friend Jimmy Byrnes of Spartanburg, S. C. took charge of the bill. "I'd rather have Jimmy Byrnes on my side than any other ten Senators," said Lindsay Warren, and the tribute was well earned. For two days a parliamentary battle was fought over the bill. At one point Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana succeeded in amending it to require both Houses' approval of every reorganization move by the President, by vote of 45-to-44. But after two days' smart maneuvering, Jimmy Byrnes got the amendment...
Significance. Lindsay Warren's stature and influence in Congress are not measured by his one House chairmanship, that of the obscure Accounts Committee (which looks after what the House spends on itself). No one has attempted to oppose Warren in a Democratic primary since he won his seat in 1924. In only four of his eight elections have Republicans bothered to nominate a candidate against him. Patronage is therefore unimportant to him. He has not pressed for places on important committees. He turned down the $15,000, 14-year job of Comptroller General. In 1936 he declined to contest...