Word: overtoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate bill, to 21-to-45. Result: to get 800,000 men in the next year, the Army would have to call only one registrant out of 23. But the floor managers could see this was not enough. The Senate had seized at a straw -the Overton-Russell amendment giving the President a club over recalcitrant defense industries-which would permit Senators to argue on the stump that they were drafting wealth as well as men. The House wanted a straw...
...Bill, 58 to 31. The Senate had approved peacetime conscription, but the bill provided the biggest burst of fireworks in 1940's Presidential campaign. Morning of the final day, Georgia's smooth-faced Senator Russell popped up with an amendment jointly sponsored by Lousiana's Senator Overton, ardent New Dealer and onetime Huey Long ally: ". . . Whenever the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy determines that any existing manufacturing plant or facility is necessary for the national defense and is unable to arrive at an agreement with the owner of such plant or facility...
...Then sleepy Representatives awoke to what they had done, angrily tacked a repealer clause to a pending defense appropriation bill. Somehow, on the bill's way through the Senate, the repealer clause vanished. Result: the President still had his big club regardless of the fate of the Overton-Russell amendment...
...issue is the form of Government under which we shall live, the way of life for which we shall stand. ... I put this question to him directly: Is he for or against the Overton-Russell amendment...
...Congress Representative Overton Brooks God-blessed America, told his colleagues: "When . . . we hear Kate Smith on the radio, every red-blooded American feels a deeper admiration and a greater love for the last republic in the entire world...