Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House. If the Administration persisted in endorsing the Kennedy amendment, they warned, they would retaliate by slashing foreign aid funds. Retreating halfway, the President let word get out that he liked the principle of the Kennedy amendment, but was leaving it up to the Senate to decide whether to tack it on to the foreign aid bill or defer it for later action. Was he sure that this was where he wanted to stand? asked a White House staffer. Barked Ike: "Now look, I've told you three times-that...
Knowland not only has stern ideas about labor, he is also running for governor of California on a police-the-unions platform. With little prior warning to Democrats or the Administration, Knowland prepared to tack onto the measure a 14-amendment "labor bill of rights" that would, among other provisions, allow the recall of union officers upon a 15% membership petition, and postpone strikes when 15% objected...
...adopted a resolution to freeze farm price supports and acreage allotments at not less than the 1957 levels. The vote was a defeat for the Administration and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wanted to cut farm giveaways. ¶ But when Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas tried to tack a $5 billion tax cut onto a routine insurance tax bill, thereby departing from his leadership's check-and-raise tax policy, he was clobbered...
...challenge: many a Republican Congressman admits privately what he would not dare say publicly, i.e., that Ezra Benson is indeed on the right tack. If the Republicans really wanted to defend moral right over political expediency, they could take just such a campaign stand this fall. Perhaps, for so open and honest a pitch, they might lose congressional seats this year. But for the majority of U.S. taxpayers, both on farms and in the city, they would make it clear that the Democrats, and not the Republicans, are the party in favor of perpetrating the scandal...
...mills still held when he got to Charles Town. He was hired by Norman ("Junie") Corbin. a shrewd trainer, a wise and patient teacher, and probably the ideal man to bring Bill along. Hawkfaced Junie Corbin needed an exercise boy to work horses, muck out the stables and clean tack, and Bill was glad...