Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Whether this election actually means that the nation has become more conservative, or is turning against the Fair Deal, cannot be judged. After all, the Democrats suffered less of a loss this time than at any off-year election since 1934. But Congressmen, wary of crossing their constituents, may be unwilling to take a chance. Certainly, laws like the McCarran Act will remain in force, perhaps be strengthened in states as well as in the federal government...
...Eugene Millikin, jovial, conservative G.O.P. stalwart, showed surprising strength in defeating Fair Dealer John Carroll in Colorado. ¶ Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Homer Capehart of Indiana, three conservative Midwest Republicans, beat their Fair Deal opponents. Three members of the G.O.P.'s progressive wing, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey and Vermont's George Aiken, also won handily...
...cost of the new laboratory will be "on the order of magnitude of $1,000,000," according to Gordon M. Fair, chairman of the Division of Engineering. The building will be strictly a large laboratory, with facilities for both the Department of Engineering and the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, both of which are under the Division of Engineering...
...Republican Congress that passed the Taft-Hartley Act and cut taxes in a time of high spending. The Republicans have opposed Truman's health plan, and other parts of the Fair Deal. That party evidently does not intend to change its stand on these questions. Nor does it intend to back down on its program of attacking anyone whom party members may consider "leftist." It will keep on trying to pass legislation like McCarran Bill...
...mild evening in Paris last spring, the gaily lighted Tuileries Gardens were the scene of a lively kermesse. It was a county fair, Paris style, with chorus girls prancing on an open-air platform while, at garishly decorated stands, French stage and screen stars whooped it up for French products. In all the buzzing, crowded area there was but one solemn touch. A long, patient line had formed before a plain board platform. On it sat a slender, spectacled novelist rapidly autographing stacks of his latest book. They were selling as fast as he could write his name...