Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...
...Senate floor tempers were better restrained, although the big issue last week was one to strike fire and doubtless would before the argument was over. The Senate had squared off for the showdown debate on repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...this climate, the debate got under way. Ohio's Taft spoke from one end of the line: "There may of course be a mandate on the President to request the repeal (of the Taft-Hartley Act), but ... certainly the people did not elect a Congress in any way pledged to [its] repeal...
...Since there are ample coal stocks, Lewis and his miners presumably could not be enjoined as they were last year under the "national health or safety" provision of the Taft-Hartley...
...morning session, presided over by Marvin Bower '30, chairman of the committee. the alumni heard L. R. Boulware, vice-president of the General Electric Co., suggest city-wide courses in economics for adults. Bowlware also attacked proposed changes in the Taft-Hartley law and declared that the pressure on Congressmen to change the act was not truly representative of the will of the people...