Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunt attacks on the socialistic tendencies of the Fair Deal. He stood for a conservative-liberal philosophy which could support certain federal grants for social welfare, but opposed any further spread of federal power or of the welfare state. On these issues the G.O.P. had a case to make, and in the Senate Ohio's Taft made it. His fellow Ohioan, Clarence Brown, called him "Mr. Republican." To Big Labor and the Truman Democrats he was both a leading Republican and an uncompromising obstacle in their paths: they were determined to knock...
...opposition to the Fair Deal. "And if he wins," hazarded an Ohio newspaper, editor, "he'll be the next Republican presidential candidate." It was obviously too soon for such talk, though it would not down. At least, with Taft, the G.O.P. would be able-in fact forced -to make a frontal attack on all those issues which were slicked over and evaded in the G.O.P.'s overconfident 1948 campaign. Standing on such a hot and public spot, Mr. Republican in Ohio began the biggest fight of his political career...
...choice is not therefore between 'accepting American dictation' and the continuance of an independent British line. It is between taking the steps necessary to make the British economy solvent now, with America's active cooperation, or taking them in six months' time in the middle of economic disaster and with America perhaps contributing no more than a melancholy 'I told...
...Bellolampo raid caused shrieks of rage in the Italian press. Communist papers featured a Tass dispatch calling Giuliano the tool of imperialistic foreign elements who wished to make the island a base for military operations. Minister of Interior Mario Scelba flew to Palermo and cleaned out the whole Montelepre police command. Himself a Sicilian, Scelba began a wholesale transfer from Montelepre of native Sicilians...
...million kitty, Kennan argued, would permit a start on the only dynamic policy now proposed from any source-a systematic interference with Communist organization of East Asia. Obviously, it would need privacy and finesse in application, which the discretionary feature of the Republican amendment would make possible...