Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested in the industry sheltered under this paragraph. Therefore I withhold my vote." Skeptical observers wondered what he would have done had the vote been closer...
Democratic Dry Senator Harris of Georgia, hearing that one commissioner was dickering for a four-year lease on a Washington home, threatened to withhold the commission's expense money unless it ceased its secret activities. Exclaimed Senator Harris: "Every enemy of Prohibition is in favor of the commission . . . acting behind closed doors and conducting their deliberations for years." He demanded a report from the commission to justify its existence...