Word: gearhart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last September, in California's Central Valley, Candidate Harry Truman made his political advisers wince with an off-the-cuff attack on hard-shelled Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart. Said Harry Truman: "You have got a terrible Congressman here. He has done everything he possibly could do to cut the throats of the farmer and the laboring man." Some of his aides, remembering the lesson of F.D.R.'s purge, argued that personal attacks often boomeranged in favor of the target. But wherever he went, Harry Truman never ceased to "pour it on" Republican members of the 80th Congress...
When the count of the new House of Representatives was completed last week, seven-termer Bertrand Gearhart was at the bottom of the wreckage of 75 Republican seats. He was soundly beaten by a man who had never before run for public office: tall, 47-year-old Cecil White, a cotton rancher who campaigned by radio and in his small airplane...
...every state border, local candidates climbed aboard. Dewey gave them wholehearted endorsement, carefully calling each by his first name. In Fresno, Dewey was introduced by Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart, whom Truman had labeled "one of the worst obstructionists in Congress." Dewey told the crowd: "So there can be no mistake about it, I want to say how proud and honored I am to be introduced by my good friend Bud Gearhart." Bud beamed, and Dewey added: "I am very proud of the 80th Congress...
...worthless? "This Globe case," said he, "happens to be about the sorriest of the many issues floated last year-issues that should never have been offered to the public-even as speculations. . . . The underwriters of this stock were the Stock Exchange firm of New-burger & Hano of Philadelphia and Gearhart & Co. of New York. . . . What are the Stock Exchange and the National Association of Security Dealers doing about cases such as these...
Wisconsin's Republican Representative Frank B. Keefe (who signed the majority report along with California's Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart) took a middle ground in a supplemental opinion. Items: the Democratic majority had tried "to throw as soft a light as possible on the Washington scene"; General George Marshall and Admiral Harold Stark "must bear their full share of responsiblity"; the U.S. people must be better informed of the course of U.S. diplomacy than they were...