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...legislation and the Eisenhower extensions and additions to it; e.g., it opposes the whole theory of federally supported school construction and health reinsurance as part of the pattern of "creeping socialism." Its old inner rumblings of isolationism make foreign aid especially suspect. The Old Guard is the party of Taft (William H. in 1912 and Robert A. in 1952). It is at its strongest in the organization-minded U.S. Senate, where Old Guardsmen pretty much run things and come-lately Eisenhower Republicans spend their time on the District of Columbia Committee (on the current District Committee: New Jersey...
...much longer," says Herb Brownell, "I will have picked a fight with every friend I ever had outside of Government." His remark is perhaps too exclusive: Brownell's lonely job has required him to pick fights with some friends inside the Government. He tangled with Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who could see nothing illegal about big packers and grocers making a tidy profit by selling cheese to the Government at one support price and buying it back a few days later at a lower price. The Justice Department is suing to recover $2,500,000. Again, Brownell clashed...
...trifled with. Failing in an attempt to block the confirmation of Harvard's President James B. Conant as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. Joe swung again at Ike's Ambassador-designate to Russia, Charles E. Bohlen. He battled away against such respected party leaders as Bob Taft, demanded that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles be called to testify under oath on the Bohlen nomination. Here, Joe got the first whiplash of defeat. This proposal, said Bob Taft in measured tones, is ''ridiculous." It was soon afterward that Joe cast his lot irrevocably against...
...already requested three times) that would require union pension- and welfare-fund statements to be filed with the Justice Department and made public; 2) a move to seek congressional authorization for the Labor Department to make public the 38,000 union financial statements filed each year under a Taft-Hartley provision. Predicted Mitchell: "The labor movement will emerge from this period of trial stronger and cleaner and more responsive to the welfare of its members than ever before...
...never been required in contempt cases to which the U.S. Government was a party. The exception: the Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932 required jury trials in contempt proceedings arising from labor disputes. The provision was in effect repealed (with the enthusiastic approval of most Southern Congressmen) by the Taft-Hartley...