Word: knutson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FRED MARSHALL, 42, a lean, hard-muscled farmer, uprooted Minnesota's stubborn Harold Knutson, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, whose 32 years in Congress had lulled him into thinking he could never be beaten. Marshall, who had been Minnesota's Farm Security administrator for six years, picked up Harry Truman's line, argued that Knutson's 1948 tax-cut bill was "a rebate to the rich...
...face of an overwhelming American public opinion. But that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership...
Minnesota's dairy-defending G.O.P. Congressman Harold Knutson wrathfully contemplated the spectacle of city Republicans working for oleo with Southern Democrats. "You saps!" he screamed. (For the Congressional Record he edited this to "You poor, misguided creatures.") "I cannot understand you. You did what the New Dealers shied away from doing for 16 long years." He threatened the South with revenge. "We are going to remove all quotas on cotton imports . . . If you pull us down, by the eternal, we will pull you down with...
...Washington's Hotel Shoreham one day last week, 3,000 dentists were shown an easy way of putting themselves halfway out of business. Dr. John Knutson, of the U.S. Public Health Service, demonstrated the best way of swabbing children's teeth with fluoride.*Properly done, the swabbing appears to reduce cavities by 40 to 50% (TIME...
...Should the tax reduction of the Knutson Bill be enacted?" will be the topic of the Law School Forum to be broadcast over the ARC networks tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. For University listeners the program will be broadcast at 4 o'clock over WCOP...