Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittman liked straight shooting, straight talk, straight whiskey. Despite his 68 years, he was tall, lean and lithe as a whip. It was said that he kept flat-waisted by bowing gracefully. He had plantation manners-the soft-voiced courtesy of his Vicksburg, Miss, breeding. But he was tough, too, in the tradition of Westerners, never more dangerous than at his extreme politest, with a laconic wit that shot from...
Having beaten Brown, the Senators abandoned further attempts to keep the bill clean. As the final vote approached, Pat Harrison accepted amendments right & left. Key Pittman of Nevada got blanket exemption for all his friends who are en gaged in mining various "strategic" war materials. Texas' Tom Connally swelled the bill by more than 100 pages with a steeply graduated income tax, to be imposed in case the U. S. declares war. Senator George introduced a subtle liberalization which would reduce the yield still further, and which nobody quite under stood...
...question of destroyer sales to Britain was entangled in naval, legal, international complications before General Pershing finished his appeal. International, unpredictable Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, came out with another idea. This time he favored trading the destroyers for "a few British battleships...
...White Committee based its case on a simple argument. It wanted destroyers released so that they could give the utmost service for U. S. defense. The bargain was no trade, as suggested by Senator Pittman, no question of strategy, as raised by Major Eliot, no legal labyrinth. Said William Allen White: "If the British Empire, with all the weight of its democratic economic power and its military strength and naval force, should fall, the United States would be alone in a warlike world. . . . If war is not checked and thwarted in Great Britain, war will come inevitably to the United...
...resolution permitting the U. S. ship McKeesport (with Red Cross supplies for refugees) to proceed through belligerent waters to Bordeaux was amended before passage. The amendment-suggested by Senator Clark of Missouri and written by Senator Pittman-was aimed to prevent other similar ships from running blockades or supplying other than Red Cross materials to belligerents. However, Senator Holt in his speech, made before the amendment was proposed, made no reference to desiring any amendment to the resolution-he objected to it simply on the ground that it might involve...