Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally Senator Robinson took up the cudgels. He spoke as Senator Robinson has not spoken in many months. Said...
After the battle had been fought on this basis for several days, Leader Joseph T. Robinson proposed a compromise. It reduced the local contribution requirement from 40% to 25%, omitted the "pauper's oath," placed the responsibility on the President for waiving the 25% requirement for communities unable to meet it. But the Administration forces under Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky rallied to oppose this modified restriction on the spending...
This produced a very delicate political situation. Since Senator Robinson has been promised a place on the Supreme Court, there are two chief candidates to succeed him as majority leader. One, favored by most of the older Democratic Senators, is Senator Byrnes. The other, not so popular with the Senators but preferred by the President is Senator Barkley. Senator Barkley not yet majority leader nevertheless openly led the Administration's fight, rallying several more or less radically inclined freshmen Senators such as Schwartz of Wyoming and Pepper of Florida. He was credited with having been given the go-ahead...
...lack of diligence, total lack of thrift and energy? Have we come to the point where we wish to say, "The less you do or attempt to do, the more we will do?" When the Relief bill went to Congress a group of stanch Democratic Senators, of whom Senator Robinson was one, went to the White House and said flatly that Relief spending had to be reduced. They said it so flatly that Franklin Roosevelt listened to them and gave them reassurance. Inasmuch as the President was last week trying to push his Relief bill through Congress without...
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois' dudish oldster, who plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected...