Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaigner," growled House Republican Leader Joe Martin, "and when I want votes, I go after 'em. Now Sam's an old campaigner too. When he needs votes, he'll go after them too." In jockeying for position on the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction, Martin and Democrat Sam Rayburn had gone after votes so skillfully that they were deadlocked. Result: late last week, after days of glaring at each other from a distance, the old campaigners were forced to get together on a compromise of a compromise of a compromise...
...week began with this tactical situation: the civil rights bill, with the Senate amendment requiring jury trials in all criminal contempt cases, was stuck fast in the House Rules Committee and needed G.O.P. votes to bring it out. But Joe Martin, who is not even certain that he has any Negroes in his district ("I've seen one or two of them on the streets in Attleboro, but I can't say I can recall the names of any of them"), was determined to place a Republican stamp on what then stood as a Democratic bill. Said Martin...
Strong Kidneys. Martin persuaded the four Republican members of the Rules Committee to hold out against the Senate bill, set New York's Republican Representative Kenneth Keating to working out a party position on the bill with Acting Attorney General Bill Rogers. Then Joe Martin, who ordinarily confers a dozen or so times a day with his old friend Sam Rayburn, announced that he was not on "talking terms" with "Mr. Rayburn...
With everyone on Capitol Hill wondering when they would get together, the two entered on a war of nerves, each refusing to go to the other. Said Martin: "I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to see the Speaker on a subject like this. I'd be an interloper." Replied Rayburn: "My door is never locked. I'm always glad to see Mr. Martin or any other member of the House." How long would the waiting game go on? Grinned Joe Martin: "My kidneys are good...
...last week, a divergence of opinion about the state of the U.S. economy presented the nation with an equally Delphic appraisal. Said one top Government economist: "The danger of inflation has passed and the nation is in a phase of healthy economic readjustment." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. disagreed. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, he insisted that inflation is the most critical economic problem facing the country, and that a rolling business adjustment is needed to avoid serious deflation. Said the A.F.L.-C.I.O., mirroring the views of some key Democrats: the Administration's tight-money...