Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his big and little political powers. Never before has he used his veto weapon with such telling effect as in his refusal to sign the recent whole-hog rivers and harbors pork barrel (TIME, April 28) and the Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead of benign nonpartisanship-from the White House. Says Republican Whip Les Arends of Illinois...
Though he admits that this charge is true, Warshaw has maintained that Reische's petition was too late even to be included on the ballot. Warshaw also claims that Reische's campaign was "not held on a high enough level," since it used poor taste...
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...revamped unemployment compensation bill passed last week by the House, while inadequate, is still a step forward. Senate Democrats fortunately plan to broaden the House measure, increasing the level of payments and extending compensation periods...
...vetoing the rivers and harbors and flood control bill, for example, Eisenhower announced that he believed "a sound national policy requires that a comparable measure of responsibility for projects where there are identifiable beneficiaries must remain at the state and local level...