Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft-Hartley law was the fighting issue, even though many other actions of the 80th Congress did not please labor. The Republican leadership in Congress had sponsored and pushed through the law. The fact that a majority of Democrats voted for the law was offset by the strong veto of the President. The Taft-Hartley Law made it impossible for even Republican labor leadership to endorse Governor Dowey. Under the New Deal there were always a number of Republican labor leaders to endorse their party's candidate. It is significant that this year only one president of an international union...
Swing from Right. Obviously the little old voter liked Democrats better than Republicans. Harry Truman had made his campaign on the record of the "worst Congress in history." Whether or not he accepted that indictment completely, the voter was ready to accept it in part. The Republican-controlled 80th Congress represented a kind of conservatism which he decided he was against...
...away from the Republicans. They were leading in the fight for 12 more. They were leading in all 11 contested Senate fights. This meant that Dewey was not getting big enough majorities anywhere to pull other Republican candidates along with him in a major sweep. It meant that the 80th Congress was getting thumbs-down from the American people. At 1 a.m. Truman was still in front. At 2 a.m. his popular majority had grown while his electoral probability had dropped. Nobody knew just how it would all come out. But it looked very much as if the tide...
Congressman John F. Kennedy '40 and former Congressman Thomas H. Eliot '28 analyzed the situation in Harvard Hall last night and concluded that Republican leadership was at its lowest obb in the 80th Congress and that Republican state officials are not catering to the needs of the people. About 40 persons attended the informal Liberal Union seminar...
...issues of this election are in the parties, Schlesinger said, maintaining that the Republican Party is the party of business. The basic question concerning the Republicans is "Has the business community learned enough since its last tour in power?" Actions of the 80th Congress, he said, indicate they have...