Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate floor tempers were better restrained, although the big issue last week was one to strike fire and doubtless would before the argument was over. The Senate had squared off for the showdown debate on repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...showdown will come when both Brazil's and Argentina's railways are finished, and the two countries bid openly for Bolivia's oil. Whatever the outcome, the blessings and drawbacks of modern life will soon come to the Oriente's cattle herders and rubber collectors...
...Roman Catholic Church and the Czech Communist government were heading for a showdown. Since March, when the church refused to agree to the nationalization of all Catholic schools or to recognize the state's right of veto on church appointments, the Communist propaganda machine has been screaming that the higher clergy and the Vatican are allied with "Anglo-American imperialists and fascists." Last week the new Communist-front Catholic Clergy Gazette unsubtly intimated that some priests could expect a higher income if they would only show "a positive attitude...
...fight. Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R-Mich.), who led the successful opposition last year, said "I don't think we will be able to stop it now." Two more of the Truman administration's prime legislative goals--a now labor bill and federal aid to education--are due for showdown tests in Congress this week...
Behind the Times. Not since the House squeezed through extension of the draft by a one-vote margin on the eve of war in 1941 had its members been thrown into such an irresponsible panic. In the showdown, the economy-shouting Republicans had looked even worse than the Democrats. Republicans had followed their leaders, Joseph Martin and Charles Halleck, in voting 2 to 1 for Rankin's raid on the Treasury. Democrats, whose leaders stood fast against the bill, voted 3 to 2 to stop...