Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been placed upon .the sacrificial altar to appease...
...distractions. From the wings came the sound of angry mutterings and sudden shouts. It was the South's Democrats, denouncing Harry Truman for his civil-rights program. Republicans gleefully pushed and prodded. In the Senate, they dusted off an FEPC bill, pushed the House's anti-poll tax bill toward floor consideration. In the House, a Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited on Speaker of the House Joe Martin, presented him with a petition bearing more than a million signatures which demanded the immediate ejection from...
Turkey & Potions. But work done did not interfere with political jockeying. Democrats who had begun to sidle away from the President's stand against tax reduction broke into an undignified jog. Minority Leader Alben Barkley let it be known that a $4 billion cut might be acceptable. Les Biffle, Harry Truman's eyes & ears in Congress, departed to talk turkey with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, who was vacationing in Florida...
...provide decent facilities for the state's mentally ill. But as soon as Big Jim took his oath, he began to do something about these promises. He asked the legislature for $140 million to spend on conservation and public health. To raise the money, he suggested increasing cigarette taxes, imposing a new tax on soft drinks and reinstating a tax on capital stocks...
...Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...