Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas-Taft Bill for federal aid to education is "a bill to subsidize irresponsibility." President Henry M. Wriston of Brown University told the Law School Forum at Cambridge High last night...
...week long, the candelabra and chilled-wine circuit hummed with hostesses plotting and providing. Mostly it was the embassies that entertained the visitors; being conscious of the high importance of congressional favor, they also invited key Senators. Robert Taft's attempt to cut EGA authorizations (see The Congress) set off Senate debates which lasted until 11 p.m., and spoiled dinners all along Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row. Many a hostess who invited a Senator had to settle for just his wife...
Haggling. Meanwhile, Republican Robert Taft had moved in. Teaming up with rebellious Democrat Dick Russell of Georgia, he wanted to cut the ECA 10% for economy's sake only. "I do not believe the scale on which we are spending money can be economically justified," said Taft. "If we are not willing to cut ECA ... we cannot cut any other expense...
...futile effort. Sensing the moment, old Tom Connally ripped into Taft's logic as the kind of "haggling which takes place in a secondhand clothing store...
...common fear of the extremes in Harry Truman's campaign promises, disagreed. They thought that they also had a "mandate" from the voters (some of them had gotten more votes than Harry Truman in their areas). "The accomplishments of this Congress," said Ohio's Robert Taft, "will not be zero, though they will look like zero to President Truman...