Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...
Ohio's Robert Taft had been telling his fellow Republicans lately that unless they plugged for social-welfare legislation the Republican Party was doomed. Last week in the U.S. Senate, Robert Taft gave a vigorous demonstration of what he was preaching. Batting down the opposition of Democrats and Republicans alike, Ohio's Taft, almost singlehanded, hammered through a $300 million bill to help the nation's schoolchildren...
Virginia's self-appointed treasury-guard, Democrat Harry F. Byrd, nagged Taft with quotes from Taft's own statements opposing a similar bill in 1943. Taft frankly said that he had been converted, that he had come to realize that some states could not afford adequate educational standards. Said he: "I do not think we should . . . refuse to give one cent for this purpose, merely because perhaps some day we shall be asked to give more...
...shop, clean up the non-voting rules which now disenfranchise strikers in plant elections, and provide for legal machinery less abrupt, than the present injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans and Southerners--opposition which is itself past the point of compromise...
...best hopes for a new labor bill now rest with the Congressional committees which must frame new bills: The Democratic majorities have one more chance to compromise intelligently. If the Taft-Hartley Law remains in effect, many small inequities will continue--not to mention big ones like the closed shop ban. The National Labor Relations Board will have to continue operating under a law parts of which both labor and management have attacked violently; it will be forced to go on throwing out the cases of unions whose officers object to non-communist affidavits or the required finance reports...