Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the 74 had taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue to speak. This was far closer to steamroller tactics than the U. S. Senate usually sees. Many of the elder members of the Club fumed with anger at the breach of etiquet...
...place they can be put on." When the roll calls were taken, however, the Byrnes amendment was defeated 58 to 25, the Robinson amendment 49 to 34, but among those 34 were 22 Democrats (not counting three who were paired for it). And the names of Harrison, Glass, Byrnes, Pittman, Bankhead, Bailey, Connally, Clark, Russell, Democratic stalwarts all, were every one of them recorded supporting Joseph T. Robinson and opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...also voted on a compromise proposed by Senator Logan of Kentucky to allow the President to increase the Court temporarily, if Justices over 75 do not retire. Chairman Ashurst and other Administration supporters had taken a strong stand against compromise, but with only one exception (Senator Pittman) they voted for the compromise. Yet it also was defeated, 10-to-8, for only one of the opponents (New Mexico's Hatch) went over to the compromise. So far as the committee was concerned the President had lost thrice, once on his bill, once when his supporters voted to compromise...
...cable Ambassador Dodd for his billionaire's name. But Senator Nye was not to have the fun and publicity which Congressional inquisitors got out of the dictator nightmares of Major General Smedley Butler and Gary's Dr. William Wirt in 1934. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman promptly came to the aid of the State Department by getting the resolution referred to his committee for "study and inquiry...