Word: roader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected Governor for the third term with a whopping majority, was in shape to challenge Taft's hold on the Ohio delegation two years hence. Besides, politically wise Robert Taft saw brewing a clash between liberal and Old Guard wings of G.O.P.-a confirmed middle-of-the-roader like John Bricker could maybe line up the in-betweens and the Old Guard, keep Robert Taft out of the cold...
...between the Old Guard and the Willkieites in the Republican Party fizzled. At its meeting in St. Louis this week, the G.O.P. National Committee picked as its chairman Iowa's greying, thick-jowled Harrison Earl Spangler, 63, dirt farmer, county seat lawyer, and an avowed middle-of-the-roader...
...administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale good fellow who was one of the smoothest politicians on Capitol Hill before he moved up to the Supreme Court last year. Byrnes is a middle-of-the-roader who can get along with men of all beliefs; he knows when to hold his tongue; he is an expert at finding the common denominator...
Then the House Judiciary Committee is expected to consider two bills: 1) one sponsored by Oklahoma's young middle-roader Mike Monroney, 2) one sponsored by Pennsylvania's youngish conservative Francis Walter. The Monroney bill is Arnold's baby, would specifically permit prosecution of labor racketeers, would let the Justice Department move in on cutthroat jurisdictional strikes, would outlaw many a nefarious-but-usual labor practice. The Walter bill, even tougher, would permit injunction suits by any person "affected, injured, or threatened with injury" by objectionable union practices...
...Director of Purchases is a middle-roader. His views are his own. One day last fortnight, impatient of connivance, disgusted with the struggle for power in Washington, Donald Nelson announced his resignation as of May 1. Few days later he turned up at the White House. Last week the OPM consolidated control of purchases under him, increasing his direct power over all buying and giving him absolute power over all purchases of $500,000 or more. No more resignation talk was heard; if Nelson leaves on May 1, the reason will be that his job as buyer is substantially over...