Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With plenty of good humor, but with knees high and elbows out, Senator Robert Taft waded into the labor-law fight. The unions had made repeal of his Taft-Hartley Act a personal and political fight. Harry Truman had promised to kill it. In a Senate committee hearing room (the arena where he is most effective) Taft fought back...
...right side of the crowded hearing room last week sat representatives of U.S. industry; on the left, representatives of the nation's unions. Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson. The expression on her face was a gauge of the battle's progress. Most of the time Martha Taft looked as if she thought it was going all right...
...From the Taft-Hartley and Wagner Acts it would keep...
...Democrats. There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much if a few amendments were tacked back on. The non-Communist oath, for example, might be put back. And Harry Truman, who had found the Taft-Hartley injunction a handy weapon to use in four national-emergency strikes, might like to have it around again...
...this was no clear-cut struggle between "cliffhangers" and party progressives. Among the rebels were ex-Willkieite liberals and supporters of Harold Stassen, as well as Bob Taft's and Bertie McCormick's old guard. Hugh Scott's own support came not only from Dewey liberals, but also from the errand boys of Pennsylvania's 86-year-old Boss Joe Grundy, the oldest guard of them...