Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader of the rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
Petitions to President Truman asking for immediate repeal of the draft act will be distributed in all ungraduate dining halls tomorrow by a new student organization calling itself the United Anti-Draft Committee...
...adopted resolution on the draft read, "Be it resolved that the HLU opposes the repeal of the Selective Service Act at the present time and reaffirms its opposition to Universal Military Training...
...Truman's list of objectives is broad; it fully represents the kind of government that the country's voters have approved in every major election since 1932. Truman wants $4 billion more in taxes (principally from corporations); he wants the Taft-Hartley Law repealed, and a revised Wagner Act put in its place. He asked again for limited economic controls; proposals that have been futilely batted around in Congress for well over a year. And the President wants plenty of legislation in other domestic fields--Social Security, conservation and resource development, health, education, civil rights, and housing...
...Truman said little on foreign policy in his message to Congress. It was striking that in what he did say he was conciliatory. He stressed international cooperation; he did not put foreign policy in terms of "get-tough-with-Russia." He requested the restoration of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act "to full effectiveness," and the admission of displaced persons "without unfair discrimination." He did ask for universal military training, and a strengthening of the national military organization, but this section of the speech was almost incidental--hardly warlike. The overwhelming emphasis was on the peaceful projects of "the Fair Deal...