Word: taber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing days made one fact clear. The Republican Party-like the Democratic-is composed of two factions: responsible progressives and conservative standpatters who hanker for "normalcy." The progressives, led by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, won. But not without forcing such House conservatives as penny-pinching John Taber, Michigan's Jesse Wolcott and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen to eat crow...
Monsters & Flim-Flams. The fight went on. In a stuffy conference room, John Taber fought a rear-guard action against ECA. Time & again the conference broke up in despair. But Senate leaders were determined. By Saturday evening, Taber's House support had fallen away. Abruptly, Taber gave in. The ECA got $4 billion (only $245 million short of Administration requests), to spend in twelve months, if necessary...
Impressed, tight-fisted John Taber's committee approved the biggest appropriation yet for Hargrave's stockpilers: $300 million for emergency use, $300 million for long-term contracting. Though Congress approved, Hargrave still had $2.5 billion to go if the five-year program was to be completed on schedule...
Shouting their approval, the House bowled over the Dirksen amendment 148 to 113. Then, without even the formality of a record vote, it confirmed John Taber's cuts to the last dollar...
...Chips Are Down. Such Frenchmen feared that, in the end, it came down to trusting in the still remote and uncertain U.S. power, and events like Congressman John Taber's hatchet work on ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) did nothing to increase that trust. Premier Schuman's government might be gambling its existence (see FOREIGN NEWS) when the French Assembly debates the six-power recommendations soon...