Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...
...strike at this time. After all, steel production was already beginning to exceed demands. The solution he found last week was one that would probably become familiar: turn everything over to labor's good friend, the President. Harry Truman, unable to deliver on his promise to repeal Taft-Hartley, was anxious to be helpful in every...
...Senate floor tempers were better restrained, although the big issue last week was one to strike fire and doubtless would before the argument was over. The Senate had squared off for the showdown debate on repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...this climate, the debate got under way. Ohio's Taft spoke from one end of the line: "There may of course be a mandate on the President to request the repeal (of the Taft-Hartley Act), but ... certainly the people did not elect a Congress in any way pledged to [its] repeal...
...adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press for a lot of his legislation this term. There were only three "must" bills, he added cheerfully-extension of the reciprocal trade program, the North Atlantic pact, and repeal of Taft-Hartley. The President was "definitely satisfied," he indicated...