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...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...
This week, Hoffman would have to pause long enough to face Congressman John Taber's Appropriations Committee and justify the expenditure of $4.2 billion of ECA's $5.3 billion authorization. EGA had $1 billion as a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and $55 million for stopgap aid already tucked away. But the big balance would have to be approved by Congress again. That might slow down Hoffman's steps. Cautious, tight-fisted John Taber said that he wanted to go over all the European nations' requests carefully, the hearings might take weeks...
...House Appropriations Committee did something about that. It promised to make $2,376,000,000 immediately available for aircraft procurement. Chairman John Taber, one of the tightest-fisted men in Congress, announced that his committee would have the appropriation bill on the House floor this week...
...Office. The State Department had requisitioned five floors for ECA in Washington's new Maiatico Building on Connecticut Avenue. From Capitol Hill Congress watched jealously, suspicious of State's activities, determined to squash any signs of State Department influence over ECA. House Appropriations Committee Chairman John Taber was already complaining that State had loaded ECA with "expensive furniture." Hoffman was beginning to get an idea of some of the pitfalls...
Since he came back to Washington, Lovett has even wrung some words of praise from New York's terrible-tempered Congressman John Taber, the brass-lunged dragon of Capitol Hill. Said Taber: "He makes sense. Understands fifth-grade arithmetic. Very rare in Washington...