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Finally, by a vote of 63-10-16, the Senate passed the "voluntary" O'Mahoney-Kilgore substitute, with fine-or-jail penalties for employers who violate controls of the War Manpower Commission, with utterly no compulsion for workers. Snorted Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, who had been for a national service...
...qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph O'Mahoney added his plea: "It is time for us to think what this is going to mean overseas...
...bill was approved by most insurance men as well as by monopoly-hating Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney who had blocked a previous attempt to fence off the industry from any federal control. The bill would leave regulation of insurance where it is now, in the hands of the states. The Federal Government could step in only for violations of the antitrust laws...
...last fight over Jackson Hole has not yet been fought. As the 79th Congress convened, Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney readied a new bill, which would abolish the Presidential right to create national monuments by executive order...
What grieved Tom Connally most was that almost all the talk came from Democrats. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey was suddenly not as enthusiastic about the nominations as he had been. Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney asked, incredulously, whether the Senate would "vote blindly about so important a matter. . . ." Connecticut's Francis Maloney took another tack: "There may not be any brighter or better men than these. On the other hand, there might...