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...extravagance and favoritism. At the very least, they meant a subsidy to some holders of defense contracts. Southerners complained that Wilson's "distressed industry" plan might wipe out the booming South's competitive edge over New England textiles. Cried South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, whose Senate-House "watchdog" committee launched an immediate inquiry: "I am not going to sit here and preside over the liquidation of the Southern textile industry." Added South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes: "It's nothing but a subsidy to reward the imprudent manager...
...guarded a secret as atomic weapons, but it will cost nothing like as much to produce . . ." Did the knowledge of the new weapons have anything to do with passage of the $5 billion? "Of course," said Subcommittee Chairman Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming. South Carolina's Burnet Maybank added a slight damper. Appropriations for "the weapons," he said, were "small compared to $5 billion." Most of the money in the $5 billion item was specifically ticketed for direct expansion of U.S. air power-to increase the Navy's air arm as well as to start building...
South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank, sponsor of the bill, didn't have anything against Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle, he said. "I know the troubles he has had . . . But how do I know who is going to be in charge [of prices] next month, or month after next, or in January?" Authority to roll back prices to pre-Korean level was more White House power than Maybank was willing to put into law again. The Administration had had the power in the expiring act but had flubbed it. "The truth is," said Maybank, "the Administration has failed...
...would be on our way again along the spiraling path of inflation." But in the cloakrooms, Ives's Republican colleagues vowed that no one would be able to make the Republicans the party of inflation. They would blame it all on Harry Truman ; they could just quote Democrat Maybank...
Besides the outspoken, who had already taken up positions in the debate, there was many a legislator still warily keeping his own counsel, or feeling for a secure hummock on middle ground. Said South Carolina's conservative Democrat Burnet Rhett Maybank: "I think MacArthur would have had us do too much with too little, though his theory is right." Also in the middle was Illinois' independent Democrat, Senator Paul Douglas, who would not bomb Chinese bases in China, but advocated a naval blockade of China as well as U.S. aid to Chinese guerrillas on the mainland and "helping...