Word: revercomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...
...Senators sat agape. Observed West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb: "This is the most unusual qualification I have ever heard advanced for the appointment of a federal judge-to appoint him because he is irksome to the Administration." Said Harold Ickes...
...President, will the Senator yield?" is the most frequently heard question on the Senate floor. Despite its familiarity, West Virginia's droning Chapman Revercomb faltered in mid-speech when he heard it one day last week. The polite parliamentary request came from a citizen in a rear gallery...
West Virginia's diehard Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
...Military Affairs Committee read the labor-sponsored Murray-Kilgore reconversion bill. The bill's controversial core was a proposal for complete federalization of unemployment pay. It included a table of payments which ran up to $35 a week. Republicans cried: "Another WPA!" West Virginia's Senator Chapman Revercomb charged that workers in some brackets would get more pay when jobless than when employed. Eyeing the $35 top rates for workers made jobless by peace, he asked a troublesome political question: How could the U.S. pay only $20 a week to returned soldiers...