Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shocked by the investigations of the McClellan Committee, the American public is quite concerned about the extent of labor racketeering in this country. Republican candidates for Congress, especially in the states with right-to-work laws on the ballot this fall, have declared that since the Democrats control Congress and the Kennedy-Ives bill was defeated, the Democrats defeated the Kennedy-Ives bill. This argument entirely misrepresents the issue...
...Both Republicans and Democrats thought the Kennedy-Ives bill an effective measure to insure union democracy and to give control of welfare and pension funds to union members. The bill received the overwhelming affirmative vote of 88-1 in the Senate. Before the bill was considered by the House an extensive campaign was launched against it. Life, an unquestionably Republican magazine, attributed this lobbying campaign to the Teamsters, who seem to have a vested interest in racketeering, and to the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce, who seem almost to prefer to keep racketeering...
...near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale (B.A. '13), was a bridge player (very good) and oarsman (topnotch). In 1921 he formed an investment banking firm with his brother Roland (who is still a Republican). His reported personal fortune: between $75 and $100 million...
Harriman abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President...
...experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...