Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had called to my attention an article in TIME concerning the appointment of the successor to the U.S. Senate of President elect Kennedy [and reporting that Congressman McCormack was "angered" by the appointment]. Relations between President-elect Kennedy and me are very cordial, and will continue...
When the news got out, most Massachusetts Democrats were plainly disgusted about the whole thing ("We can't afford a senatorial baby-sitter"). Among those most angered: House Majority Floor Leader John McCormack and his brother Edward ("Knocko") McCormack Sr., who wanted the job for Knocko's son, Massachusetts Attorney General Edward McCormack Jr. This hardly left McCormack in a position to decry favoritism over merit, so he could only sulk...
...decorated with "Have a Heart, Vote Ward" posters. "You'd have to have a hole in your head," muttered someone. He was in the minority; by one o'clock about two hundred people were gathered around the emblazoned campaign trucks--a few of them with Kennedy, Ward, McLaughlin, White, McCormack, Driscoll, and Buckley ribbons down their chests...
...price supports as a matter of party loyalty. But this year urbanized Congressmen have been feeling the sting of voters who blame the wheat farm-subsidy scandal for the rising cost of living. New England Democrats went solidly against the wheat bill, with the exception of Massachusetts' John McCormack, floor leader, and Connecticut's Chester Bowles, Democratic-convention-platform committee chairman. Only four of Pennsylvania's 16 Democrats were for the bill. All of New Jersey's five Democrats were opposed; only two out of New York's 18 Democrats followed the farmers. Even...
Under a rarely invoked "calendar Wednesday" rule, the Democratic bill was rushed to the floor by Massachusetts' John McCormack, House Democratic leader, was pushed to passage in the necessary single legislative day despite eleven roll calls demanded by Southerners and Republicans trying to delay action. The bill passed, 201 to 184-a comfortable margin but far short of the two-thirds majority (of those present and voting) that would be needed to override Ike's certain veto...