Word: pac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contention that the forces of New Dealism were gathering ominously to prevent him from being re-elected--thereby undermining the whole system of parliamentary government. When the CIO Political Action Committee was formed in early 1944, he sought in vain to connect it with the Administration. The PAC was not only legal, but it made things so hot for Dies down in Texas that he decided not to try for another term. Glumly muttering imprecations, he "retired," and his fellow-southerner, John Rankin, took over...
...other rather than conflict. One looks to the need for improving labor's stock in the public eye: this is the AFL's 38-cent per member assessment for a $3,000,000 propaganda agency. The other moves to intensify labor's block-by-block doorbell ringing; this is PAC's registration drive to bring out 60,000,000 voters next Fall, 12,000,000 more than...
...member at the same meeting also made plans to "support continued federal rent controls in cooperation with the Harvard Teachers Union and the Cambridge PAC," Bozman said...
When Shapley refused to submit the records of these organizations because he had no authority to do so and was not even a member of the two PAC groups, he was ordered to appear before the House committee...
...Liberal Union, after hearing C. Fayette Taylor, M.I.T. professor and vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Independent Citizens PAC, condemn Rankin's action, voted last night to distribute petitions among the student body today backing Shapley's position. Taylor himself had expressed hope that such behavior by Rankin and the committee would lead to a recognition by Congress of the group's nature and finally its discontinuance...