Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West last week, Harry Truman told reporters that much of his program would be based on his Sept. 6, 1945 message to Congress. Actually, a good part of that message had to do with problems of postwar reconversion. But the relevant points of the message, plus his messages to Congress in 1947 and 1948, plus the Democratic Party's 1948 platform (he helped write it, he said), plus his campaign speeches, provide an up-to-date view of Mr. Truman's ideas which, if he is as consistent in the future as he has been in the past...
...rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
Social Welfare. Broadening of social security to cover 20 million U.S. farm workers, houseworkers, etc., not covered now; an increase of 50% in all social security benefit payments; a national health program to insure medical aid for everyone; $300 million in federal aid to raise the incomes of schoolteachers and provide more schools; a slum-clearance program; a low-rent housing program to put up 15 million units in the next ten years...
...than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will become entirely apparent to the people within a few years...
...policy level, the skirmishing was brisk. Young Philip Willkie, elected to the Indiana legislature, suggested a national convention in 1949 to formulate a new program. Said New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey: "Instead of being forever against everything, the party must once in a while be in favor of the plain interests of the people...