Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drops a hint of how a bill may be passed. That work relief was finally enacted as the President wanted it was largely due to Vice President Garner's advice to the bill's managers to withdraw it from the floor when it was blocked by the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, reform their lines in committee for a second and successful drive...
...Washington for weeks, and reasserting his political strength, the master of the White House persuaded the Senate to walk once more with him. His 4.88-billion-dollar Relief Bill was brought back from the purgatory of Committee, whither it had been sent last month after the addition of the McCarran "prevailing wage" amendment had made the measure wholly unacceptable to the President...
Voting down (50-to-38) a second introduction of the McCarran proposal to pay the wages of the private building industry to workers on public projects, the Senate substituted an amendment giving the President "discretionary control" of relief pay except on Federal building projects. The horse trade which effected this compromise was reported to have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that...
Idaho's Borah growled that he had got just two letters, both commending his vote for the "prevailing wage" amendment. Father of the fracas, Nevada's portly Pat McCarran, told reporters that of the 200 communications he had received, all save one were favorable...
Working on a variety of motives, the opposition everrede resistance by a vote of 44 to 43. McCarran and other disciples of Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, fathered the measure, blinded by a dogmatic adherence to the one high-wage scale for all workers. The buffoon from Louisiana, too tolerantly dismissed as a fool, whipped wavering Senators into line, from a much-heralded desire to "do anything" to thwart the administration. Republicans, acting with usual partisan tactics, voted almost as a block for the amendment. The appalling fact is that none of the opposition cliques knows...