Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months old. No one had yet put his brand marks on it, though several had tried. In the first glow of the session it was hopefully hailed as a Fair Deal Congress, but that was obviously a misnomer. Then when Republicans and Southern Democrats ganged up to kill Harry Truman's civil rights program, an angry C.I.O. official said that Congress was run by the "Dixiegop." That was also too pat. It hardly fitted last week's news, in which the Fair Deal won a big victory in one house and lost in the other, both by narrow...
...constantly breaking off from one nucleus to join another. Judging by the first six months, the 81st was proving footloose and independent-minded. The independence made it irritatingly slow at times; it also made for the kind of middle-of-the-road Congress which would never fully satisfy the Truman Fair Dealers, or satisfy the conservatives either, but would nevertheless leave behind it some solid achievements...
...tall man with the flat voice and the triumphant smile. Before the week was over, Taft had forced Majority Leader Scott Lucas to throw up his hands in despair and had the Administration in complete rout. The issue in the Senate was the Taft-Hartley Act, which Harry Truman had promised to get repealed...
...this went for nothing. Lucas predicted that President Truman would veto the Taft bill if it should pass the House (as was very unlikely). Then the old Taft-Hartley Act, with all the faults in it that Taft admitted to, would remain the nation's labor law. Why? Because the Administration, for obvious political reasons, didn't want it improved; it only wanted to kill it-but couldn...
...week the House was in a minor pandemonium, with members milling around, gliding in & out of doors, haranguing one another, jostling down the aisle to have their noses counted. In the midst of what looked like a county fair, Administration forces were making good at last on a major Truman campaign promise: federal help in building homes for the country's ill-housed...