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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...
...seized Montgomery Ward's Chicago plant, Pat McCarran pulled on his war bonnet. He sent a committee agent to Chicago, subpoenaed WLB files, and jumped into the headlines with a promise of a fearless, "nonpolitical" investigation. For three weeks he and West Virginia's G.O.P. Senator Chapman Revercomb mulled over their evidence. Last week they reported...
...good measure, Senators McCarran and Revercomb also attacked the actions of WLB, NLRB, Frances Perkins' Conciliation Service, and even old Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, who has been lying low for months. All, in the view of the two Senators, had exceeded their authority...
Reasons for his licking: 1) Kump followers, lusting for revenge, helped Revercomb; 2) C.I.O., which had always helped Matt Neely before, this year remained silent; many coal miners did not vote; 3) a Neely victory, West Virginians knew, would have left the State Governorless until a special election could be held. (West Virginia has no Lieutenant Governor; the State Senate president governs temporarily in the event of a vacancy...