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...Frank Knox, a veteran of World War I, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, the Republican whom President Roosevelt had asked into his Cabinet to become Secretary of the Navy. He was there by request, so that the committee could judge for itself whether he was a warmonger. To committeemen he said...
...floor forces in Philadelphia. He entertained Massachusetts' Congressman Joe Martin overnight. He saw and handshook a parade of state GOPoliticos-some of whom had fought him up to the last ballot at Philadelphia. For hours he was closeted with a steering committee of twelve G. O. P. National Committeemen...
Equally significant was the Republican minority's strategy. Nine of the ten G. 0. P. Ways & Means committeemen abstained from voting-but not because they opposed new taxes. The Republicans thought the House should go much further in overhauling and broadening the tax structure. Democrat Doughton agreed in principle, promised to attempt a major overhaul (including additional taxes on excess Defense profits) at the next session of Congress...
...than 1938, "Market Street" had ladled out a plump $100 per division to knock out old Gifford Pinchot's third try at the Governorship; that fall, when Republican Arthur Horace (Breaker Boy) James tossed the Little New Deal of Governor George H. Earle III out of Harrisburg, Republican committeemen carried rolls of at least $100 per division. And in 1939's mayoralty fight, an alleged cascade of currency from the offices of G. 0. P. City Chairman Jay Cooke won the election between 4 and 6 p.m. with a $100-per-division allotment...
...Army has spent some $15,000,000 on Garands, needs at least $6,500,000 more to reach its goal of 240,559 new rifles by June 1942. After hearing General Wesson, the House committeemen ap proved a $2,000,000 appropriation for fiscal 1941 with this significant reservation: "The committee is unwilling to take the responsibility of not doing so, even though it later may be found that we have gone ahead too rabidly." Said Committeeman D. Lane Powers (New Jersey): "We do not want to appropriate for . . . additional rifles if what we hear and what we read...