Word: marvinism
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...approached the Emergency Hospital and were asked to stop chanting, they obeyed. When a White House car pulled up with a request to divert the march to the auditorium of the Labor Department, they obeyed again. There they cheered David Lasser's reading of a message from Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, expressing the President's regret that "it is not within our power" to reinstate all the WPA workers already discharged, the President's belief that no more need...
...Henry Wallace, but biggest obstacle they had to hurdle was the White House. Franklin Roosevelt simply stated that he would veto the Sugar Bill unless Congress lopped off discriminations against Hawaii and Puerto Rico, allowed them also unrestricted refining. When the Bill reached the floor of the House, Congressman Marvin Jones, Agriculture chairman and father of the Bill, introduced a courtesy amendment to right these discriminations, but he fooled no one. Said McCormack of Massachusetts: "[Mr. Jones] is a good soldier, but he talks with his tongue in his cheek." The amendment lost, 135-to-92, and swarms of sugar...
...orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body, so they settled themselves in the room across the corridor, where food and drink were brought them and they remained until the establishment closed at 10 p. m., visiting with one another and with some 500 notables (including Marvin Mclntyre representing the President), who called and signed the book...
Head of the delegation was Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate. Backing him were the Messrs. Bankhead and Pope of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Representative Marvin Jones, head of the like committee of the House. At first Mr. Wallace was reluctant to agree to what was urged upon him. He was pressed with the point that his bill would boost the Government's expenses about $100,000,000 next year, that it is late in the season and Congress is left with a great deal to do. On condition that Congressional committees would continue study...
...Alabama's Joe Starnes, flood control bloc leader, let it be known that he had "positive assurance" that there would be flood control pork, earmarking or no earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much more than he had asked for his drought control. Only Oklahoma's Wilburn Cartwright, who wanted his pork in the form of road construction, was still fighting for his amendment...