Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Privilege. While the House sweated, the Senate, which would probably have to take final responsibility for extracting Rankin's stinger, was in almost as waspish a mood last week. After listening to A.F.L.'s 75-year-old President Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
With plenty of good humor, but with knees high and elbows out, Senator Robert Taft waded into the labor-law fight. The unions had made repeal of his Taft-Hartley Act a personal and political fight. Harry Truman had promised to kill it. In a Senate committee hearing room (the arena where he is most effective) Taft fought back...
Other Truman remedies for shortcomings were: a prepaid medical-insurance program; federal aid to schools; the Truman civil-rights program. He also asked for universal military training, broadening of social security, extension of reciprocal trade treaties for three years. He wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year...
Petitions to President Truman asking for immediate repeal of the draft act will be distributed in all ungraduate dining halls tomorrow by a new student organization calling itself the United Anti-Draft Committee...
...adopted resolution on the draft read, "Be it resolved that the HLU opposes the repeal of the Selective Service Act at the present time and reaffirms its opposition to Universal Military Training...