Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering the possibility that this is his last term in Congress. The hottest candidates for the speakership if and when Mister Sam retires: Missouri's Richard Boiling, 44, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, 52, and Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, 51. Seldom mentioned is Democratic Floor Leader John McCormack. Working against him are age (69) and religion: like President Kennedy and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, McCormack is a Roman Catholic...
...happens that I have a nephew who is attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," thundered Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack in the U.S. House of Representatives last fortnight. "Not so long ago, a federal judge in Boston threatened him with contempt of court. Well, anyone who declares war on the McCormacks ought to know that a McCormack is always ready to join the issue-and the war is on until peace terms have been offered by the one who declared the war." No sooner had McCormack sat down than Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...Never Forget." It was hardly a surprise, then, that abrasive Charles Wyzanski should run afoul of Manny Celler and John McCormack, neither of whom is famed for a cool temper. The bad blood between Wyzanski and Celler goes back five years, to the time when Wyzanski was assigned to sentence Massachusetts' Dem ocratic Representative Thomas J. Lane, a member of Celler's Judiciary Committee who pleaded guilty to evading $38,542 in income taxes. Before Lane was sentenced to four months in prison (he was promptly re-elected to Congress on his release), Celler asked Wyzanski...
...sensational hearing by Wyzanski in U. S. District on the alleged bribing of government officials by the engineering arm of Worcester, McCormack criticized the arbitrary procedures and the since of civil libertarians...
...search for truth" hearings of and early January, Wyzanski threatened witnesses with charges and denied them the of the Fifth Amendment. "From other men one might expect these ," McCormack claimed, " is one of the most brilliant men bench...