Word: protectionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's program, reciprocal trade legislation was expanded and extended for three more years. But, in perhaps the most significant development of the 84th Congress, many southern Democrats abandoned their traditional free-trade position, bowed to the South's new industrial interests and voted with the protectionist bloc...
...contrast to his vigorous stand on the Bricker Amendment has been the President's attitude toward many of the planks of his own legislative program. Too often his proposals have been endangered by his failure to exercise proper leadership. His willingness to make unnecessary concessions to protectionist minority groups like the watch industry weakened his position on his foreign trade bill. By his eagerness to delegate authority, Eisenhower has created a vacuum of leadership in which major decisions like issuance of the Yalta papers have been made evidently without his knowledge. His toleration of censorship in the selection of books...
...George's. ¶ The climactic battle of the 84th Congress will come on the Administration's liberalized foreign-trade bill. Walter George, in his dual role of Democratic fiscal and foreign-affairs expert, will play the key part. A longtime reciprocal trader, still holding firm against protectionist pressures from Georgia's textile and plywood industries, he may make the difference between an adequate bill and one riddled with amendments granting tariff sops to individual industries. ¶ When House Speaker Sam Rayburn pushed a patently political $20-a-head income-tax cut through the House, it faced...
...than importers demanded that ODM reverse its original recommendation. Cried Maryland's Democratic Representative Richard E. Lankford: the President's tariff action last summer was based on "a gigantic hoax, a deception perpetrated by those persons inside and outside the Government who are interested in fostering a protectionist policy...
...former protectionist, I want to explain why I have become convinced that the United States urgently needs to liberalize its foreign trade policy. We cannot hope to survive as free men-much less operate prosperous businesses -unless the Communist drive for world domination is checked. We cannot check Communist imperialism without strong allies. And we cannot have strong allies over the long haul unless the free world is liberated from crippling and divisive trade restrictions...