Word: fair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York political fight has been heralded as an indication of the nation's reaction to President Truman's "Fair Deal" program...
...wasn't quite as much a victory as it seemed. By the time the lawyers finish with its loopholes, it will probably cover at least 200,000 fewer employees than the old Fair Labor Standards Act. The old bill affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
Dulles was campaigning forthrightly on the proposition that just about everything in the Fair Deal was wrong. His good friend Governor Thomas E. Dewey had never been so bold: he had given his approval to most items of Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...
...Leash." The Fair Deal, said Dulles, was a package labeled "Something for Nothing." The Brannan plan was "economic jabberwocky"; if it worked, it would be "the most amazing miracle since the loaves and the fishes." Federal aid to education meant federal-controlled schools. The Democratic Party, like the Communists, was "pretending a great love for human welfare that can find expression only by giving more & more power to the all-powerful central government...
...challenge. With a pearl-grey fedora planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman went down the line for the Fair Deal, with occasional speechwriting assists from old Roosevelt Speechwriter Judge Sam Rosenman...