Word: tafts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that it will have passed a bill giving substantial aid to American education. The Democrats are pledged to such legislation, and President Truman has been championing it for some time. A considerable segment of the Republican party also favors educational aid appropriations--in fact, a bill sponsored by Senator Taft got through the Senate last April, and probably would have been passed in the House, if it had reached the floor before the summer adjournment...
...Taft bill would have passed out 300 million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...
...strings attached, and practically everybody was for it. Among its backers were Walter Lippmann, General Eisenhower, Drew Pearson, President Conant, and Walt Disney. But House Speaker Joe Martin thought it would cost too much, and with the assistance of some similarly disposed Representatives, was able to keep the Taft bill from ever reaching the floor of the House...
Most industrialists took one look at soaring sales and decided it was smarter to raise wages-and then prices-than to risk strikes. (Man days lost from strikes dropped to 34 million, lowest in three years.) On its part, labor had developed a healthy respect for the hated Taft-Hartley Act, and in most cases it spoke softly...
Died. William H. Lewis, 80, Boston Negro lawyer, onetime star Harvard football center (he captained the team for one. game against Pennsylvania in 1893); in Boston. One of the first Negro members of the American Bar Association, Lewis was appointed an Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. by President Taft...