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...Snarled Nevada's irate Senator Key Pittman: Western lands "are rapidly becoming a barony of the dictator at the head of the Department of Interior...
...jumped North Carolina's Bailey, old enemy of the Administration. Bailey asked Key Pittman, in the chair, if it would be out of order for him to call "Pepper's remarks 'cowardly and mendacious.' " Assured that it would, he snapped: "Then I will so characterize it to his face," stalked...
After the broad Neutrality debates were finished last month, Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department whether an embargo on U. S. war materials for Japan would violate the treaty of commerce and navigation which has bound the U. S. and Japan since 1911. The State Department said yes, whereupon alert Republican Senator Vandenberg, well aware of popular sentiment against continued winking at Japan's war in China (and war against Occidental interests there) offered a resolution to denounce that treaty, giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After...
...chairs facing him were Charles McNary and Warren Austin, the No. 1 & 2 Republicans of the Senate, and William Edgar Borah, the Senate's dean on Foreign Affairs. Seated nearby also were "Dear Alben" Barkley, the loyal but bemused Senate Majority Leader; Secretary of State Hull; Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, White House Secretary Steve Early. Slowly revolving a cigar between pursed lips, looking more than ever owlish, Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner was also there...
...Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee followed up the Administration's defeat by asking Secretary...