Word: taberizing
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Veins bulging along his left temple, the President poured down his wrath upon the Democrat-dominated House Appropriations Committee, which had sliced $872 million out of the Administration's $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation request. Soothingly the committee's ranking Republican, New York's John Taber, reported that committee Republicans had strongly supported Ike in the teeth of Democratic opposition. "But what happened is no good," snapped Eisenhower. "This thing is vital to our country's interest...
...STEPHEN TABER...
...lounged in the speaker's lobby before going to the floor to attack the Administration for its "propaganda" efforts on behalf of foreign aid. Opposed to Democrat Passman were such longtime Republican economy advocates as Minority Leader Joe Martin and New York's crusty old Representative John Taber. Cried Taber (whom Martin accurately described as "a man who is noted for his pinching of pennies") : "Why do we have the bill? It is because of our own military situation and the world military situation, where we have the Communists knocking at every port of entry in the world...
Senatorial Self-Help. After knocking down an amendment by ranking GOP appropriations member John Taber that the President be commended for already seeking cuts, Democrats by a 219-178 party-line vote, handily passed their resolution, sent it on to the White House...
...heroes persuaded few in the ranks. Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney mockingly pointed out that in the 1952 Korean war crisis Taber, Martin, et al. had voted to cut military assistance, and complained, "I don't understand this switching around." Replied New York Republican Ken Keating: "There is one important difference between 1952 and now. We had a different group of advisers advising us then...