Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...latest silver bill. "We are now," he cried, "going back to normal. . . . There is nothing which inspires such confidence as silver money." Only a handful of Senators thought they deserved more than the President had sent them. One was Senator Pittman's Nevada colleague, independent Patrick Aloysius McCarran. Others were Idaho's Borah, Montana's Wheeler, Oklahoma's Thomas, Louisiana's Long. It was a foregone conclusion, however, that Congress would accept the President's offering and pretend to like it. Meantime interested persons made an inventory of the President's second casket...
...down one noon with Senators King of Utah, Borah of Idaho, Pittman and McCarran of Nevada, Adams of Colorado, Shipstead of Minnesota, Thomas of Oklahoma. Absent was Silverite Wheeler of Montana who did not believe there was any use in more talk. The President was buttressed by non-silver advisers: Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, Secretary Morgenthau and Counselor Oliphant of the Treasury, Senator Harrison, Senate Finance Chairman...
...effort was not wholly successful. Senator McCarran remarked afterwards: "We got very little consolation out of the meeting." The silverites went off to put their heads together, to decide whether they should try to buck the White House or bow to its will. Two days later 15 members of the silver bloc met again. Of the nine who remained at the end of a two-hour conference, seven were reported to have plumped for passage of the Dies bill with no modification...
ADAMS GEORGE REYNOLDS ASHURST HATCH RUSSELL BACHMAN HAYDEN SMITH BONE LONERGAN THOMAS BULOW LONG (Okla.) CARAWAY McADOO THOMAS CLARK McCARRAN (Utah) COPELAND McGlLL WALSH COSTIGAN McKELLAR WHEELER DILL NEELY DUFFY OVERTON...
...remaining third at the President's discretion. This would affect the pay of 1,221.505 Federal employes, including the Army, the Navy. The cost of the Administration proposal would be about $126,000,000. Last week, when the Independent Offices Appropriation bill was up in the Senate, Senator McCarran, whose logical mind could see no reason why Federal employes should be kept on short pay when the Government is spending billions directly to raise the pay of other workers, came forward with an amendment that would restore the full pay cut on July 1. The total cost...