Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are part & parcel of the Texas story, which TIME'S editors have been telling you about as the Texas boom has developed. Recently, Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Senior Editor for National Affairs, and Robert Elson, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, went to Texas to see for themselves what is going on there. They were taken in tow by William Johnson, head of our Dallas bureau...
...ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued on a few million dollars' worth of rifles and knapsacks" instead of the treaty itself...
What Is Loyalty? Harry Truman tossed away the new loyalty test the very next morning at his press conference. What was needed, said Harry Truman, was a definition of a Democrat. Democrats, he went on, are those people who support the Democratic platform, which is the law of the Democratic Party. Would he consider votes on Taft-Hartley repeal a test of a true Democrat? He certainly would, replied the President...
Great Expectations. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a Thurmond supporter (who says that he finally voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
Stiffening Changes. So the debate went. Underneath it, a far-reaching political and social battle was being fought. After eleven years of the Wagner Act, two years of the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress was trying to decide whether the U.S. should try some compromise between the two-and if there were compromises, how far they should go either way. On no other piece of legislation was Harry Truman staking so much of his political prestige. Beaten in the Senate on his civil rights program, he wanted desperately to win his labor bill...