Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught up in a sense of the occasion and the historic background of the Senate's temporary quarters, Majority Leader Scott Lucas reminded his colleagues: "Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Hayne in those days decided some very important issues ... I would not be surprised if history repeated itself." Just what this fine-sounding remark really meant was hard to say. Perhaps Lucas was only trying to suggest that since there were important issues still to be decided, Congressmen might possibly rise to the stature of Clay, Calhoun, Webster & Co. in meeting them. If that is what he meant, his optimism...
...Robert A. Taft, dressed in cool seersucker, grinned from ear to ear. The Senate had had a tumultuous week, but always in command of the situation was the tall man with the flat voice and the triumphant smile. Before the week was over, Taft had forced Majority Leader Scott Lucas to throw up his hands in despair and had the Administration in complete rout. The issue in the Senate was the Taft-Hartley Act, which Harry Truman had promised to get repealed...
...safe 50-40, Taft's injunction-seizure amendment won. A.F.L.'s old William Green sent Scott Lucas an angry letter telling him to fight no longer to make "the Taft bill more palatable" since it was already "absolutely unacceptable." This, said Taft, was "probably the most presumptuous statement that any individual has ever made to the Senate...
Scornfully, Majority Leader Scott Lucas rejected the whole idea of passing the buck to the White House. Scoffed Lucas: "We should have the courage to reduce appropriations if we desire...
Everhart, Thomas Eugene of 312 North Minnesota Street, Wichita, East High, Wichita. Fox, Robert Tinley of 3302 walnut Street, Omaha; Central High, Omaha. Richards Lloyd Wayland of 4225 Douglis Street, Omaha; Central High. Ridgway, Dale Scott of 2715 Mayland Street, Topeka, Kan.; Topeka High...