Word: taber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, roaring old (67) Representative John Taber of Auburn, N.Y., had been whacking away at the Administration's $1,353,000,000 bill for foreign aid. The various expenditures which it included had all been authorized. But Congress still had to appropriate the money, and John Taber was going to finger every dollar. He denounced the bill; he tilted furiously at the "Marshall approach," which he claimed even Marshall could not explain. He likened U.S. efforts in Europe to "a ward heeler trying to catch the floaters with a $5 bill...
...last week the crusty New York Republican stopped talking long enough to listen. George Marshall and his new Under Secretary of State, Robert Lovett, talked fast in a private session with Speaker Joe Martin, Taber and other congressional leaders. They laid out all the details of the State Department's plans for spending almost $1.5 billion, down to the last round of machine-gun ammunition the Greeks would get. Then Bob Lovett, in another closed meeting, confronted John Taber and his Appropriations Committee members. Lovett showed them secret intelligence reports about Greece, emphasized his own fears of what would...
...Convert. John Taber, by now unusually quiet, hit the Marshall-Lovett trail. A convert, he converted others. His committee reported the bill out to the House with only a few exceptions.† Taber even timed the bill carefully to ensure its passage on the floor. The House had droned through a tedious day of picky objections to the agriculture appropriation bill. It was 6:40 p.m. and the members were tired, hot and bored when Taber brought up the foreign aid appropriation. Sixty-four minutes later Speaker Joe Martin gaveled it through to a voice vote. There were only...
...John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has held up the emergency aid to Greece for two months while he tries to pare down the $300 million appropriation by roaring haggling questions at State Department witnesses. Even though piecemeal aid to Greece does not make much long-range sense, the crisis in that country is getting worse and John Taber does not seem to have any ideas for coping with it. Last week the Greek Government arrested 4,000 Communists on charges of plotting to take over the country (see FOREIGN NEWS). From Communist-run Albania, a new guerrilla...
...Navy's agonized pleas that it would mean a reduction of 82,000 men below authorized strength. But the cuts did not come easy. The truth was that Harry Truman had made most of the easy ones himself in his budget message. But chief G.O.P. axman John Taber strove manfully...