Word: taber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of previous commitments by both chambers of Congress, the House lopped off more than $2 billion from funds already authorized for ECA and other foreign aid. The cuts were made by New York's John Taber, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a man always vigilant to pare a cheese. He sliced $170 million off China aid, $75 million off aid to Greece and Turkey, $150 million off occupation funds, and $1,745 million...
...economizers were adamant. Barked John Taber: "The architects of this world-wide relief program have no definite plan." Stubbornly ignoring the months of conferences and hearings, the volumes of reports, and the testimony of such authorities as ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman and Under Secretary of State Bob Lovett, he protested that evidence in favor of the program was just "the result of a series of after-dinner conversations in which Administration economists let their imaginations run wild...
...face of an overwhelming American public opinion. But that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership...
This week, Hoffman would have to pause long enough to face Congressman John Taber's Appropriations Committee and justify the expenditure of $4.2 billion of ECA's $5.3 billion authorization. EGA had $1 billion as a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and $55 million for stopgap aid already tucked away. But the big balance would have to be approved by Congress again. That might slow down Hoffman's steps. Cautious, tight-fisted John Taber said that he wanted to go over all the European nations' requests carefully, the hearings might take weeks...
...Office. The State Department had requisitioned five floors for ECA in Washington's new Maiatico Building on Connecticut Avenue. From Capitol Hill Congress watched jealously, suspicious of State's activities, determined to squash any signs of State Department influence over ECA. House Appropriations Committee Chairman John Taber was already complaining that State had loaded ECA with "expensive furniture." Hoffman was beginning to get an idea of some of the pitfalls...