Word: bipartisanism
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...United Press's Merriman Smith cracked the first question. "Mr. President," said he, "the Democrats on Capitol Hill say that bipartisan support of certain portions of your program have been endangered by certain statements which have been made by members of the Administration-statements ranging from the fact that the Democrats were soft to ward subversives in the Government to labels of political sadism. The Democrats have asked or suggested that you stop the statements...
...reason that Taft-Hartley has not stirred up more rank & file protest is that prosperity has been high and unemployment low since the act was passed in 1947. It has remained unamended because it was originally passed by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and, until recently, liberally interpreted by a Democrat-controlled NLRB. Furthermore, labor leaders wanted outright repeal. Though the labor leaders have since changed their tune, the Taft-Hartley fight remains a battle of the professionals. And like old pros who have been through all this before, they may well let the battle die-and Congress will feel no need...
During the months that Steelmaker Clarence Randall, as chairman of the 17-member bipartisan Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, worked doggedly to hammer out a new trade policy for the nation, the word among commission staffers was that he "is out to land the big fish." The big fish was Colorado's Archconservative Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a Republican power on Capitol Hill...
...lawyer in cases before the Supreme Court), Simon Ernest Sobeloff, 59, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A son of Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition, the Administration was able to 1) get a good...
...Rojas government answered the new violence by ordering troops into Caicedonia, and by replacing the town's entire police force. It named new police chiefs or mayors, many of them army officers, for 38 nearby towns. To the south, Rojas sent a bipartisan commission which will report directly to him. Despite these measures, at week's end four more Liberal farmers were killed (two by beheading) by thugs who shouted, "Down with Rojas Pinilla...