Word: taber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Appropriations Committee did something about that. It promised to make $2,376,000,000 immediately available for aircraft procurement. Chairman John Taber, one of the tightest-fisted men in Congress, announced that his committee would have the appropriation bill on the House floor this week...
Since he came back to Washington, Lovett has even wrung some words of praise from New York's terrible-tempered Congressman John Taber, the brass-lunged dragon of Capitol Hill. Said Taber: "He makes sense. Understands fifth-grade arithmetic. Very rare in Washington...
Sacred Dance. On interim aid, New York's hot-tempered John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, caused a gnashing of teeth, even among his fellow Republicans. To go with a $597 million authorization, John Taber brought out an appropriation bill providing actual cash of only $509 million. For France, Austria and Italy, this meant $88 million less than the "irreducible minimum" set by the Administration and approved by the G.O.P. foreign-policy leader, Arthur Vandenberg. For China, which the House had insisted on including among the aid recipients, the Taber bill provided not one cent. The State...
...flurried, waning minutes of the session, the Senate Appropriations Committee repaired some of John Taber's ax-work, boosting interim aid to $570 million, occupation expenses to the original $490 million. When the bill went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China...
Nationalism always comes before politics, and a Communist in CRS thinks a French communist is all wet, but he's going to turn brown when DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel...