Word: rubber-stamps
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...TIME, the only reason nearly 700,000 Illinois Republicans voted for Senator Brooks is because they prefer an honest, straightforward American to a shirttail-riding, "where-he-leads-I'll-follow," rubber-stamp type of candidate. After all Illinois has an open primary...
...Department, Tom Eliot has resigned from his latest post as Regional Director of the Wages and Hours Division to bring the representation of the 9th District up to date. His views are those of the relief and reform measures passed by the present administration. But he is not a rubber-stamp, not a coat-tail rider. He is a man of independent and forward-looking mind, the type for which there is a need in the national legislative halls. Two years ago, he failed in his first campaign to carry a strongly Republican district by the narrow margin of only...
...almost any desired action by Orders in Council, in which all three of the great British parties are now represented. There was no totalitarian suppression of all parties but one, no totalitarian exaltation of one man as Dictator, no wiping out of the established British press or creation of rubber-stamp Government organs, and no abolition of the trade unions as in the Nazi Reich...
...Among the few exceptions: Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days of rubber-stamp legislation, 1933; pork-barrel appropriation bills...
...rubber-stamp totalitarian fashion, the Parliament of Nazi-dominated Republic of Slovakia last week unanimously elected Premier Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest, to become President of Slovakia. Dr. Tiso was kicked upstairs to a post of greater dignity, less power, because the Nazis have begun to consider him "untrustworthy." Simultaneously Minister of Interior Béla Tuka was promoted Premier amid rumors that he will soon be replaced by an even more pliant Nazi tool...