Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard organization, whose views were safe and whose weren't, the views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard's official endorsement. Furthermore it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, others Senator Taft. Still others would bar anti-vivisectionists or opponents of birth control or World Federalists or Christian Scientists or Monsignor Sheen or Colonel McCormick. The answer is not suppression of "dangerous" ideas . . . but more vigorous statement of American ideas, and faith which would be well-founded in the ability...
...week's end, the Labor Committee was ready with the bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Like the filibuster battle, the measure reflected the Administration's stubborn scorn of compromise. After 3½ weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it out exactly the way the White House had recommended. It drew the teeth of the Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill...
...Repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...meeting determined opposition. The special interests are fighting us just as if they never heard of November the 2nd." The special interests were trying to save the Taft-Hartley Act, he said. They were fighting his welfare measures, blocking the low-rent housing program, trying to keep minimum wages at starvation levels and destroy the farm price support program. The special interests were working through lobbies, editorial pages, columnists and commentators. "This one-sided barrage of propaganda seems overwhelming at first. There are no full-page ads on our side. In fact, all we have on our side...
Before the storm broke, the Senate hustled to get some of its cargo under cover. After 3½ weeks of listening to 50 witnesses, the Senate Labor Committee got down to the business of writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...