Word: taber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill scurried ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who had spent anxious months justifying the appropriations. To Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Republican Tightwad John Taber, Salesman Hoffman made an urgent, timely appeal. The cuts, warned Hoffman, would embarrass Secretary of State Dean Acheson at the Big Four conference in Paris. Hoffman's proposition: let the cuts stand, but let ECA come back for more at the end of 13½ months instead of the 15 months originally intended...
There was little immediate prospect of that. The House's Martin-Halleck-Taber leadership was too firmly entrenched. Liberal G.O.P. Senators would find it hard to agree upon an alternate to Ohio's Bob Taft, himself far more liberal than the House's ruling clique...
...House, shrewd and peppery Sam Rayburn, 66, of Texas, will replace Joe Martin as Speaker. New York's durable Sol Bloom, 78, will take over the Foreign Affairs Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...
...these items will continue to take up an immense proportion of the budget, Mr. Dewey would have to apply the axe to other federal operations. In this "economizing," he undoubtedy would be under great pressure from the Old Guard of the Republican Party such men as Representatives Hallock, Taber, and Martin. Just as housing and education have suffered in New York, in the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean...
Butcher Knife. Then the presidential train began a station-to-station run to Buffalo. Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon...