Word: wallacemen
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...Wallacemen now realized that they could never get Henry confirmed as a full successor to Jesse Jones, i.e., both as Commerce Secretary and as dispenser of RFC's billions. They adopted a new tack: first pass Senator George's "bill of divorcement" dividing the two jobs, then get Henry in as Commerce Secretary only. This halfway admission of defeat merely strengthened the determination of anti-Wallacemen to reject him immediately and completely, for both jobs...
...York Times's Washington pundit, the day before the showdown was "the night before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...anti-Wallacemen were deaf. In the hottest terms, Bailey denounced Wallace as the preceptor of wild economics, a "dangerous" man whom it would be "immoral" to confirm. The caucus broke up, with nothing but a bitter taste in everyone's mouth...
...Chair Vote. Prayer and preliminaries over, Bailey moved that the Senate go into executive session to vote on the confirmation of Henry Wallace. Such a motion is not debatable. If passed, it meant that the Senate would certainly turn Henry Wallace down. This was the showdown. Did the anti-Wallacemen have the votes? To gather them all, they had persuaded Nevada's pale, ailing James Scrugham, 65, to leave Naval Hospital, had brought him to the chamber in a wheel chair...
...halfway mark the count stood Truman, 342; Wallace, 286. But the Wallacemen were fighting; the count narrowed; suddenly it was neck-&-neck: Truman, 400; Wallace...
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