Word: spessard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit injunctions, but bar seizures. One after another, ideas were passionately debated, defeated by Taft's phalanx of Republicans and Southern Democrats. The fight was so close that Vice President Barkley flew back from the West Coast...
...third of the freshman Senators had been governors. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, a rasping preacher of regular Republicanism, was one of the seven. Conservative Democrat Herbert R. O'Conor had been a vigorous two-term governor of Maryland; conservative Spessard L. Holland was a former Florida governor. The G.O.P.'s liberal wing added popular ex-governors Ray Baldwin of Connecticut and Ed Thye of Minnesota...
...Florida, Spessard Lindsey Holland, ex-Governor (1941-45), friend of Senator Claude Pepper, had no trouble beating demagogue ex-Representative Robert Alexis Green for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Charles O. Andrews...
...DAVID B. SPESSARD...
Schweitzer's chances seemed dark. Local observers thought that Terry wanted a way to recoup political prestige lost when Governor Spessard Holland ousted from the School Board Terry's henchman Russell F. Hands, who had been found drunk and naked in a Miami hotel with a woman in a like state. Terry dominates the School board...