Word: fepc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed-shop, union political activity, and anti-Communist provisions); strong labor unions; tax reduction and debt retirement (any surplus split 50-50 between them); tax concessions for small business; Government controls on inventories, consumer credit, commodity speculation; a $1 billion-a-year Government housing program; rent control; FEPC; a modified U.M.T.; parity price support; admission of D.P.s...
...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
...preparation for the debate on ERP. There had been distractions. From the wings came the sound of angry mutterings and sudden shouts. It was the South's Democrats, denouncing Harry Truman for his civil-rights program. Republicans gleefully pushed and prodded. In the Senate, they dusted off an FEPC bill, pushed the House's anti-poll tax bill toward floor consideration. In the House, a Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited on Speaker of the House Joe Martin, presented him with a petition bearing more than...
...claimed, under examinations from the floor, that "the Federal Council of Churches has many Communist connections," and cited specifically its support of the FEPC Bill. "I am not saying that Mr. Ives (Republican Senator from New York and the sponsor of the FEPC) is a Communist, but he is certainly catering to them," Hart said...
...future, the committee asked what had often been asked before: an anti-lynching law, an anti-poll tax law, a new FEPC, a law protecting the right to vote, laws guaranteeing equality of treatment in education, health and public service. In the nature of things political, many of these recommendations would remain pious hopes. But the committee's report provided a sharp and much-needed prod to the nation's conscience...