Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey Campaign Strategist Ed Jaeckle: "It was obvious all along that Dewey was carrying a lot of excess baggage-excess baggage like Taft, "Curly" Brooks, Ball, Robertson, and the rest of them. The [voters] ... apparently figured Dewey would have a hell of a time with those people and that this was the time to clean them...
...Congressman Fred Hartley Jr., coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Dewey started acting like the President of the United States too soon...
...facts which had been almost completely overlooked before the election now stood out like very sore thumbs: 1) labor voted in droves against the Taft-Hartley law and worked quietly but feverishly to sell the Democratic ticket to everyone in sight; 2) many farmers, who had been expected to vote Republican as usual, voted for Harry Truman instead. Between them they caught the Republicans in an implacable crossfire...
Angry Mutterings. Farmers had no such specific target as the Taft-Hartley law. But they had been muttering angrily ever since Congress refused to grant appropriations to the Commodity Credit Corp. last summer for more crop storage bins. Because no Government loans can be made on crops stored on the farm, they had been forced to dump their surplus on a falling market...
...Taft-Hartley. High on the list was repeal of the Taft-Hartley law.* If Barkley had his way a new act would be written, much more to labor's liking. Some of the Taft-Hartley law which labor did not like: measures which outlawed the closed shop, required unions to file financial reports, required labor to hold elections to win union shop contracts, forbade union contributions to political campaigns, required officers to sign non-Communist affidavits, outlawed jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The business of new labor legislation was under the wing of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...