Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the man at the top of the Administration's blacklist of Congressional bad boys was Missouri's Roger Caldwell ("Duke") Slaughter. National Chairman Bob Hannegan sizzled and sputtered about him. Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke of him, in private, as he would of the lowest form of Republican. Harry Truman was a friend no longer...
...Roger Slaughter is a well-fed, middle-aged (40), second-term Democratic Congressman who used to live a couple of blocks from Harry Truman in Independence, Mo. In his 'teens, he got out and rang doorbells in behalf of Truman for County Judge. As a Kansas City lawyer-politician, he stumped long and loyally for Truman for U.S. Senator...
...since those happy days Slaughter had voted against or helped block many of Harry Truman's pet measures; as a member of the potent House Rules Committee, he had embarrassed the Administration on the Hill time & again...
...mill politician, wavy-haired, well-tailored Roger Slaughter has always shown a streak of independence, makes no bones about his conservatism. Princeton-bred and well-to-do, he has a successful law practice, plays dufferish golf at the Kansas City Country Club, generally remains aloof from the hurly-burly of Missouri politics. He particularly roused the President's ire by going out to Harry Truman's home territory*and making a rousing speech on behalf of the Case Bill just before the President vetoed it. Worse yet, a great many Kansas citizens seemed to like the speech...
...Appointed a five-man committee headed by Missouri's Congressman Roger C. Slaughter (from Harry Truman's district) to continue investigation of surplus property disposal...