Word: repeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
...stumped for new housing, for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, for more social security, for the Marshall Plan, for civil rights. When Republican Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks refused to debate the issues with him, in the fashion of the old Lincoln-Douglas debates,* he set up an empty chair and debated with that. The voters liked what they saw: a big, 6 ft. 2½ in., 235-pounder with simplicity and integrity sticking out all over him, a scholar who looked equally at home in the coal fields of Little Egypt and the tenements of South Chicago. "That...
Even before the opening-session gavels fell, the air was rife with the shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...
...Senate the threat of filibuster hung over at least three measures: repeal of the federal tax on oleomargarine (by dairy state Senators); civil rights (by the Dixiecrats); a revised D.P. bill (by Nevada's one-man roadblock, Pat McCarran). In both Houses one of the warmest debates would come over taxes and the new budget, which was giving concern even to some staunch Administration Democrats. Majority Leader Scott Lucas hopefully predicted a cut of $1 billion in foreign aid and $2 billion in military spending. Illinois' rising Freshman Senator Paul Douglas, a Fair Dealer, wanted to trim...
...Rumors that excise taxes would soon be pared put a last-minute crimp in Christmas sales of taxed luxury goods. Moaned one Detroit jeweler: "I wish they'd either repeal that tax or stop talking about...