Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Truman's proposals were largely based on recommendations of the Hoover Commission, a non-partisan body established in 1947 to work out ways of simplifying the government's bureaucracy. The Commission reported in 1948, and last year the president sent his first seven plans to Capitol Hill where six passed. Under a regulation, the President is empowered to make changes in his branch of government so long as neither house of Congress disapproves of his plans before a set date--this time May 23. This rule was intended by Congress as self-defense against interest-group pressure--pressure more likely...
Surrounded by a hale of non-partisan backing, possible economy in executive expenditures, and progress, most of the plans seemed certain of passage. In fact, Congress took no action until May 10. Then Senator Taft attacked the most vulnerable of the proposals, No. 12, which would have abolished the office of General Counsel in the National Labor Relations Board. The Hoover Commission never made this specific recommendation and, since the Office was established by the Taft-Hartley Act, both the Republican and Southern Democrat supporters of that bill opposed such an action. The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports...
...invasion of Russia in 1940 had given the Ukrainians new hope of winning their 240-year-old fight for independence. Throughout the Ukraine, guerrilla units sprang up and took advantage of the confusion to fight both Germans and Russians. By the end of World War II, the guerrilla Ukrainian Partisan Army (U.P.A.) had 200,000 men and ruled much of the Ukrainian countryside...
House Minority leader Joseph W. Martin said that there was "no partisan division" in the House Ways and Means Committee on the question. The Committee now has the bill in executive session and is expected to report favorably on it in the near future...
...changing some of the original proposals Truman compromised their non-partisan character and laid them open to partisan attacks by certain legislators and by lobbyists who make cash on government confusion. Congress, by keeping its collective head, can still pass all the Commission-backed proposals. But to save these plans, it must survive pressure and outwit the Capitol's balcony quarterbacks in the next few days...