Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's ex-mayor, Ed Kelly, still one of the country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time...
...Senate Finance Committee began hearings on the House's tax-reduction bill. Almost immediately, members were faced with the cold stare of Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Secretary Snyder was in an "adamant" mood. He stiffly reasserted the Administration's stand against tax cuts, refused to let Republican committeemen persuade him that big cuts are needed now to bolster public purchasing power, and left the anxious committee to guess whether Harry Truman would veto the final version of the tax bill...
...occasions beaten up. . . . The employer's plight has likewise not been happy." The committee blamed the unions, which the Wagner Act had made into a "tyranny more despotic than one could think possible in a free country." Congressmen were resolved to trim down that tyranny. A minority of committeemen protested that the bill would "result in bitter and costly strikes...
Balance of Power. The bill had some holes in it; some of the ground rules were vaguely denned. But essentially it accomplished what Labor Chairman Fred Hartley Jr. and his committeemen wanted. It would restore the balance of power in labor dealings to management, which, in the apparent opinion of a majority of U.S. Congressmen, is where it belongs in a system of free enterprise...
Tickets for the weekend will go on sale to all upperclassmen today in the Coop.. Phillips Brooks House, and the Union. In the preliminary Union sale to Freshmen during the past two days, more than half the available tickets have been sold. Committeemen termed the initial sales response "very favorable...