Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor's record in & out of Congress has been nearly everything Henry Wallace could ask for. He was a rank isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls...
...significance of ADA's full-dress show? The rank-and-file members total under 25,000. These are predominantly on campuses (school affiliate Students for Democratic Action boasts half of the 190 chapters) and in the middle-class ranks of socially alert physicians, lawyers, and businessmen--a nebulous tidbit of independent voters politicians understandably have chosen to ignore during the organizational growing-pain months. Its leadership has furthermore consisted largely of intellectuals and ex-bureaucrats of the Roosevelt period whose current strength in public affairs is negligible for all practical purposes...
...That a Secretary for Air be appointed at once and given cabinet rank...
...administration of ERP would fall somewhere between George Marshall's insistence on out-&-out State Department control and opponents' demands for a bipartisan corporation. The committee compromise followed the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission, with a $20,000-a-year administrator of Cabinet rank, backed up by a bipartisan advisory board of twelve men chosen from outside the government. The administrator would have complete authority to make grants and loans (through the Export-Import Bank), would be responsible to the State Department only for mutual exchange of information...
...handle ERP's business abroad, a mission headed by a liaison officer of minister's rank would be sent to each participating country, supervised by a roving, $25,000-a-year ambassador-at-large. Congress would have a 14-member watchdog committee chosen from both Houses, which Vandenberg hoped Massachusetts' Representative Christian Herter would head...