Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamsters, 200 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., other hundreds of grey flanneled N.A.M. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce men) had swept into Washington to join the struggle. Some of the labor persuaders unwittingly played into Halleck's hands by trying to use blackjack tactics on Congressmen. "If you vote for the Landrum bill," one bakers' union man warned New York's liberal Republican John Lindsay, "we're going to have to work you over in 1960." Lindsay, outraged at such tactics, changed his nay decision to solid support for the Landrum-Griffin bill...
Jimmy Hoffa himself came through swimmingly. At a dinner for his 400 lobbyists, he promised to "elect" a Congress that would dance to Teamster pipes. When he heard this, Missouri's Democrat Clarence Cannon, who had pledged his vote to Sam Rayburn, announced that he would have to vote for Landrum-Griffin...
...other side of-the fight, Sam Rayburn's top lieutenant, Missouri's Richard Bolling, based his strategy on a civil-rights sleeper that had somehow slipped unnoticed into the Landrum-Griffin bill. The Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony...
...last minute. Jimmy had found a "silver lining" in the Landrum-Griffin bill. And he told the Southerners just where to find the actual civil-rights sleeper, hidden in Section 609. The Southerners panicked just as Dick Bolling had predicted, but it was still 24 hours before the final vote-and it proved to be ample time to work out an amendment to get the civil-rights sleeper out of the bill...
...Texas delegation. The pro-Ike mail from home was building up tremendous pressure, and much as they hated to leave their old leader, many Texans were thinking of defection. Their dilemma was compounded by another Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who warned Mister Sam that for Texans to vote for anything less than the toughest possible labor bill would ruin them back home. Inevitably, word filtered out, and one by one the Texans made their decisions...