Word: taber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specifics, his performance would have set the Republican pros to sniggering contemptuously at another man. Pointing to New York's Representative John Taber, senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee and as given to penny pinching as Governor Rockefeller is to free spending, Rockefeller said he had "learned all I know about budgets from John Taber." Pointing to New Jersey's Representative James Auchincloss, Rockefeller said that "anything Charlie Auchincloss does is usually good for Republicans," joined in the general laughter when he discovered he had used the wrong name...
Veins bulging along his left temple, the President poured down his wrath upon the Democrat-dominated House Appropriations Committee, which had sliced $872 million out of the Administration's $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation request. Soothingly the committee's ranking Republican, New York's John Taber, reported that committee Republicans had strongly supported Ike in the teeth of Democratic opposition. "But what happened is no good," snapped Eisenhower. "This thing is vital to our country's interest...
Obvious Answer. New York Republican Taber, an old hand at cent-counting, argued that armed foreign troops can defend their homelands far cheaper and better than expensively armed ($3,500 to $4,000 each) U.S. troops. But such sound answers were swept under piles of Passman detail, 19 columns of it quoted from his own hearings. Despite the President's press-conference claim that, by his "understanding," House Democratic leaders would not make the foreign aid vote a partisan affair, they let Otto Passman beat down Republican efforts to restore the cuts, send the mangled bill to the Senate...
...STEPHEN TABER...
...lounged in the speaker's lobby before going to the floor to attack the Administration for its "propaganda" efforts on behalf of foreign aid. Opposed to Democrat Passman were such longtime Republican economy advocates as Minority Leader Joe Martin and New York's crusty old Representative John Taber. Cried Taber (whom Martin accurately described as "a man who is noted for his pinching of pennies") : "Why do we have the bill? It is because of our own military situation and the world military situation, where we have the Communists knocking at every port of entry in the world...