Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mike Monroney, Representative from Oklahoma, also objected to Finletter's treatment of Executive-Legislative conflict. "Government," he said, "should be by conflict." With regard to positive Congressional action, Monroney insisted that "Congress has provided positive leadership." He concluded the forum with a resume of the "Report of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress," outlining the basic changes considered in the report...
Speaking in the New Lecture Hall will be Mike Monroney, Representative from Oklahoma; Thomas Finletter, author of "Can Representative Government Do The Job"; Arthur Holcombe '06, professor of Government; and Roland Young, author of "This is Congress." Jerome L. Rappaport 1L, the president of the Forum will act as moderator for the meeting...
Such a remedy was proposed in Congress last week. Oklahoma's Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney introduced a bill to prohibit union make-work practices by subjecting unions to prosecution under the antitrust laws. Harried employers, of musicians and other union workers, heard the news with restrained gratification. It was a long jump from introducing a bill to getting it enacted into a law. The labor lobbies would fight to the last man against the Monroney bill...
...truce was in sight. Best hope for a compromise came on the subsidy issue. Oklahoma's able, shock-haired Mike Monroney proposed an amendment (which showed surprising strength in a House vote) to continue subsidies until Oct. 1, 1944, and to make them revocable at any earlier time at the first sign of a general wage increase. Mike Monroney's solution may yet be adopted. It had virtues: 1) it would tie farm prices and wages together; 2) it would put the subsidy issue squarely into the 1944 campaign, where both Congress and the Administration seem to think...
...Coast. Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan's Ferguson, South Carolina's Maybank; from the House: Minnesota's Judd, Pennsylvania's Wright, Maine's Hale, Georgia's Ramspeck, Oklahoma's Monroney, Indiana's La Follette and Massachusetts' Herter-some of the best brains in Congress...