Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota's Harold Knutson tried to fulfill one GOP campaign promise by plugging a bill...
Short of a GOP presidential convention or a nonagonal track meet, the biggest three-ring spectacle of the moment is now playing at the Boston Garden. With a penchant for extravagance matched only by the verbosity of the publicity men, John Ringling North and assistants have made their bold bid to recoup the loss of the 1944 Hartford fire, and if mere bustle and flourish are any criterion of success, they've hit the tin can squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns...
...stinging setback for Senator Taft (Ohio), chairman of the Senate's GOP policy committee and the labor committee. Taft had predicted passage of the amendment by a "comfortable margin...
...principal item: a labor arbitration plan for the building industry), and had time left over to think about a bill which would prevent top officials from taking along government documents (such as the voluminous Morgenthau diary) when they leave Washington. For the second time this year he called in GOP and Democratic Congressional leaders for a "congenial meeting." Again they discussed such safe topics as extending the Maritime Commission's ship operating authority...
...Engel, who urged that exemptions be doubled. As yet, no Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications so easily defensible that someone is certain to crop up with the idea before the argument becomes much warmer. With the GOP in power, some sort of tax relief is in the cards; the main job new consists in fixing a wary eye on the dealer...