Word: takeaways
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...blown political oration entitled "The First Hundred Days: 1933, 1953." Comparing the "dazzling brilliance" of Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days with the "lack of firm leadership" during Eisenhower's, Sparkman accused the Administration of concocting a "Giveaway Program" (e.g., offshore oil) for "the few" and a "TakeAway Program" (i.e., hard money) for "the many." ¶ At a Democratic Party fund-raising luncheon in the capital, Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson cried: "They began with the giveaways . . . They backed away from any number of their campaign programs . . . They want to dream away the Russian menace...