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Quoted by 'Dog Food Diet is Forced on U.S., Says Dickinson: Senator Blames New Deal Scarcity Program', Chicago Daily Tribune (28th Apr. 1936), p. 4.
Description:'Byrnes Tries Ridicule.
Senator James F. Byrnes [Dem. S.C.], a New Dealer who is running for re-election this year, attempted to ridicule Senator Dickinson's charges and refused to be interrupted while doing so. Senator Dickinson, however, managed to get in the retort that "you can't laugh away this evidence taken by your own NRA authority.
Calling Senator Dickinson "my candidate" for the Republican presidential nomination, Byrnes chided senators Arthur H. Vandenburg [Rep., Mich.] and William E. Borah [Rep., Idaho] for not discussing "dog food, the issue in the coming campaign."
"The senator from Iowa, my candidate, has discussed the issue fearlessly and eloquently," Byrnes said, effecting general merriment. "There could be no more burning issue than dog food!"
Reads from Prepared Release.
Byrnes then read extracts from a prepared release on Senator Dickinson's speech, issued by the Republican national committee, and said "the real issue is not canned food but canned speeches." He demanded that Senator Dickinson produce some of the dog food, which the prepared release had described as being on his desk when the speech was delivered.
"Its in my office," replied Senator Dickinson.
"Mr. President, I hate to hear that the senator has been storing dog food in his office," Byrnes remarked, "I didn't know he had been eating it. I hope it is fit for human consumption."'
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Quoted by 'Says Poor Eat Unfit Dog Food: Senator Dickinson Raps at "Scarcity" Program', Daily Boston Globe (28th Apr. 1936), p. 11.
Description:'Senator Byrnes, Dem, of South Carolina, an Administration leader, walked into the chamber some time after Dickinson spoke and poked fun at what he called the "Republican campaign issue of healthy dog food."
He said the speech had been widely distributed by the Republican National Committee's Chicago headquarters.
"The real issue is not canned food - it is canned speeches," he asserted.'