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...seat of Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. may be pinched off by young, Irish Catholic Democrat Joseph Patrick Casey, a 1,000% New Dealer. Further, in Michigan many Republicans are expected to cross party lines to re-elect the Democrats' able hero of the farm-bloc fight, Prentiss M. Brown, although the Republicans have a candidate of unusual stature in Judge Homer Ferguson...
...used such powers in the past, or would wisely use them in the future; the question was not that he had often politically used one bloc against another; nor that he had consistently favored the labor bloc at the expense of the rest of the U.S. The question, as Prentiss Brown saw it, was simply that the Commander in Chief had asked Congress in time of war to give him by specific legislation powers he could otherwise use without specific Congressional consent. (Under the Second War Powers Act, the President may directly take any action he deems necessary to prevent...
Republicans, Too. On the crucial day the Senate farm-bloc leaders, New Mexico's sober Carl Hatch and Oklahoma's greenback-inflationist, Elmer Thomas, were content. Observers were fairly well convinced that the farm bloc would have its way in the Senate, too, when up rose Prentiss Brown in the Senate. Said...
...Press Hits. Prentiss Brown's was a tremendous performance, powerfully and logically carried out. He was aided in the debate by a longtime farm-bloc member, now seceded, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney. The two carried the day. Next day the public press descended on the farm bloc and the farm lobby like a million tons of bricks. Columnist Clapper used the most powerful language...
...After Prentiss Brown's performance, Majority Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky recessed the Senate, coolly calculating that public and private pressures would make themselves felt over the weekend. By Monday morning the farm bloc was scrabbling around for a compromise. Brown stood firm. Barkley let the debate drag. The lobbyists met that night-this time with a smaller bloc of the faithful. The Administration now had the votes. The immediate peril was over...