Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservatism in the Midwest. Voters were alarmed by Government spending, higher taxes, the suspicion that the State Department had played footie with Communists within its own organization and in Asia. They were suspicious of what Harry Truman might do with his oft-repeated Fair Deal program-the Brannan Plan, repeal of Taft-Hartley, etc.-if he got full control of the 82nd Congress. Republicans swam in the conservative tide and rode it to the beach...
...fact is, the President does retreat. While still bugling all the notes of the Fair Deal, he retreated, for example, from the legislative front line on FEPC, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Whether he retreats or not in the 82nd Congress will not make much difference. If he doesn't, he will be immobilized...
...some of the anti-McCarran Act campaigners win, it may convince politicians that voting against anti-Communist legislation isn't suicide. Repeal or drastic amendment of the current law may then become a possibility. If many opponents of the McCarran Act lose, especially so strong a figure as Lehman, the Act will probably remain unchanged...
...great age of steel and the great age of free enterprise had finally socialized its basic industry. But the chapter was not quite ended. Said Conservative Party Leader Churchill: "We shall, if we should obtain the responsibility and the power, in any future which is possible to foresee, repeal the existing Iron & Steel Act." Meanwhile, the government had appointed a board headed by Millionaire Socialist S.J.L. Hardie, a scrap-metal tycoon, to run Britain's nationalized steel industry...
Look for RISE in unemployment . . . directly related to increased joblessness . . . There will be NO WAR with Russia this week . . . Pulp shipments from Siberia to Moscow are 37 per cent less than required for paper work necessary to launch a major conflict. . . Taxes: House Ways and Means Committee plans to repeal excise on baby oil and powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment...