Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplied by New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey (who was largely responsible for persuading the Senate not to accept Ed Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy). A month ago he had written the President about the grain shortage which was forcing New England farmers to slaughter their chickens. Said Senator Tobey: "This is a Macedonian...
...Slaughter is Harry Truman's neighbor-Congressman. He represents Missouri's Fifth District, comprising about half of Kansas City and a small segment of Jackson County. The President's home district is Missouri's Fourth, taking in Independence and the rest of Jackson County...
...Needle. Buoyed by his visit home, Slaughter kept right on slaughtering. Last week, along with Indiana's Republican Charles Halleck, he slipped a hot needle into the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Into a House resolution to check into 1946 election expenditures, they inserted a clause to include "labor organizations and committees thereof...
...Jackson County there is an unwritten law: a "Goat" (the old Tom Pendergast faction to which Harry Truman belongs) is always the Fourth District candidate, a "Rabbit" (the heirs of the late Congressman Joe Shannon) always runs in the Fifth-and never would the two machines collide. Thus "Rabbit" Slaughter has the committed support of Jim Pendergast, who, like his late uncle, Tom, has a passion for keeping his political word...
Altogether, Roger Slaughter was the thumpingest political headache the President had. Attending his Class of '28 reunion at Princeton last week (see EDUCATION), Roger Slaughter did not seem to mind...