Word: tafts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reign of the great sectional leaders of American politics did not pass with Calhoun, Webster and Clay. One of the most powerful in history died just last year: Robert A. Taft. The Republican parties of the twenty-odd states that make up the heartland of America followed him to the point of devotion. Because of this it was he, more than any other man, who stopped the New Deal dead in its tracks after the Second World War and begrudged the nation a bipartisan policy of world leadership...
William S. White, Congressional reporter for the New York Times, followed Taft and his influence for six years. Now he has tried to set down the whole story. The result is only disappointing insofar as it never gets behind the man to the driving attitudes of the section he represented. White details the well-known Taftian qualities: the bluntness, integrity, intellectual forcefulness and parliamentary skill which made him the Republicans most respected partisan. Recounting Taft's Republicans' most respected partisan. But the actions and attitudes of the Republican Old Guard, the core of Taft's national influence, emerged from...
These Republican leaders of the midwest and Great Plains states plainly need to be explained to the rest of the nation. For though they have been four times repudiated at national Republican conventions, they have steadily strengthened their grip on the Senate. For the last twelve years, the Taft Republicans have formed the largest cohesive political group in the nation, exerting a powers beyond the population of the states they represent...
...sense, Taft's greatest political failure was his inability to use his tremendous prestige among Mid-western Republicans to lead them into a reconciliation with the rest of the party. He knew the East--he had graduated from Harvard Law, served on the Yale Corporation, and was respected in Eastern financial circles. As "the only mind in the conservative ranks," he knew the facts of the internationalist position. But he could never rise above the short-run interests of his own section. Never, that is, until the first months of the Eisenhower Administration when, acting as Eisenhower's "Prime Minster...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson likes to say that if every American farmer would only drink one extra glass of milk each day, the U.S. dairy surplus would soon vanish. Last week, with surpluses still climbing, Secretary Benson tried to get the U.S. Government itself interested in his milk-drinking campaign. Into the hallways of Washington's Agriculture Building went four vending machines, each dispensing half a pint of milk for 10?. Then, saying that he hoped the machines would soon be installed in all Government offices, Secretary Benson marched over to tell Congress the hard facts...