Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the week, when ex-Congressional Tax Expert Fred Vinson, now stuck with the job of Economic Stabilizer, appeared to urge the same program, he submitted figures that dramatically underlined this Administration paradox...
...special board, set up by President Roosevelt to deal with the railroad men, recommended an 8? increase. This was torpedoed by Economic Stabilization Boss Fred Vinson. Vinson's decision laid down the policy that "gross inequity" was to be recognized only when the workers lived in "substandard conditions...
Last week a second special board considered the case of the operating unions, reluctantly followed the Vinson directive. Its decision: a 4? an hour increase, which was too measly for the rail workers to consider...
...sitting in the offices of every policy-making official of this Government? You and I cannot excuse ourselves. We will go back to the people and they will say: 'We sent you to Washington to represent us. We did not send [Jimmy] Byrnes, or [Prentiss] Brown, or [Fred] Vinson, or [Marvin] Jones.' And you and I will have to answer to the people...
...House Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the tough phrases (reputedly written by Fred Vinson Prentiss Brown and the Budget Bureau): "A bill to hamstring the Commodity Credit Corp. . . . would serve only to set the soldier, the worker and the unorganized consumer at war with the farmer . . . these unorganized millions must not become the forgotten men and women of our war economy...