Word: rent-controlled
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Calling the General. New York's Republicans had no such inner pains. They felt that Tom Dewey's excellent record as Governor (income taxes cut by half, a $500,000,000 surplus, a rent-control act, an anti-discrimination law, etc.) made him even stronger than in 1942. Then he gave Jim Farley's John J. Bennett a terrific trouncing (and took about 40% of the New York City vote). Jim Mead scared the GOPsters not one bit; and until last week it did not seem to matter much whom Tom Dewey picked...
First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...
...Five rent-control cases, which went into special three-judge Federal courts because they involved constitutionality, have been fought through successfully by tough little Talbot Smith, OPA rent lawyer. Two of these cases were in South Bend, two in Mobile, one in Wichita-but though widely separated on the map, all the cases were curiously alike in their defense-arguing that the act delegated legislative powers to a Governmental agency which should be exercised specifically by Congress. OPA's Lawyer Brunson MacChesney, chief of the compliance section, thinks the similarity no coincidence, believes there exists an organized resistance...