Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The relationship was sharply tested in his first big battle after taking over as Treasury Secretary: his quiet campaign in early 1958 to head off both Republicans and Democrats who wanted to try to cure the recession by cutting taxes. Within the Administration, Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary...
With one bold thrust, Anderson undercut the tax-cut advocates in both the Administration and Congress: he worked out with Rayburn and Johnson an informal understanding that neither side would push for a tax cut without first discussing it with the other side. That understanding, dubbed the "Treaty of the...
Fight Against Upcreep. As the economic indicators started climbing, Anderson's prestige climbed with them. That autumn he set off on another soft-spoken crusade: his fight to get the Administration firmly committed to balancing the fiscal 1960 budget that the President would send to Congress in January 1959...
Said Secretary Flemming at a press conference specially called just 17 days before Thanksgiving: two batches of the cranberry crop from Washington and Oregon had been found contaminated from improper use of a toxic weed killer called aminotriazole. The chemical, he said, had been tested on rats and had caused...
No Tolerance. "This is a disaster," cried George Olsson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., a cooperative for 1,079 growers who produce 75% of the nation's 62,000-ton cranberry production. Cranberrymen, he said, have used aminotriazole with care-even before the Agriculture Department set a rule...