Word: faired
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Government, said Taft, had an obligation to help those who simply could not help themselves. On that principle he estimated the Taft program for housing, health, education and relief would cost only $1 billion a year; in contrast, he figured, the Fair Deal line which Harry Truman was peddling would cost the country $14 billion a year...
...freshened up the lines. Now, he declared, there was a "scare-word" campaign. "The people want public housing for low-income families," Truman said. "The selfish interests . . . think it will cut down on their own income so they call it 'collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program for the farmers, including an effective price-support program. The selfish interests . . . call this 'socialism...
Through four Ohio counties last week, Senator Robert Taft methodically toted his political sample bag, dispensing his own brand of anti-Fair Deal specifics. He had abandoned his upturned Panama for a nondescript grey fedora. Grinning, never argumentative, spouting statistics and shaking his forefinger, he trotted from Cleveland to Parkman to Painesville to Warren and points between, opening his bag and displaying his wares...
With that offhand blow at the statist tendencies of the Fair Deal, Dulles announced last week that he would run for election to the Senate seat that he now holds by appointment. It was a reluctant decision. When Dulles sat down in retiring Democrat Robert Wagner's vacant seat ten weeks ago, it was with the understanding that he would stay on only until a special election in November. He wanted to get back to his Wall Street law practice and to the field of international relations, possibly as U.S. delegate to the U.N. Besides, although he had twice...
...Spellman (TIME, Aug. 1). But if Harry Truman enters the New York campaign himself, as he had implied he would, Candidate Dulles will get his chance to argue the definition of statism again-at close range and with more specific application to the works of Harry Truman's Fair Deal...