The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1945-1948

by Wunderlin, Clarence E.

• ISBN13: 9780873387644
• ISBN10: 0873387643
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

The third of a four-volume edition of the papers of Robert A. Taft This third volume in the series documents Robert A. Taft's experiences through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reelection battle as senator from Ohio in 1944, Taft moved steadily upward in the leadership ranks of his party and assumed a preeminent position among the bipartisan group of conservatives that increasingly dominated Congress. Taft was most widely known for his leadership of the postwar effort to revise federal labor law. In 1947 he cosponsored the Taft-Hartley Act, the single most important piece of labor legislation passed in the aftermath of World War II. These amendments to the 1935 National Labor Relations Act defined "unfair" union practices, banned closed shops, and authorized court injunctions that would delay strikes that harmed national security by imposing an eighty-day cooling-off period. In the immediate postwar years Taft recognized the need for federal aid to education, social welfare legislation that assisted the poor, and federal support

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Editor's Note ... Abbreviations	p. xiv
Acknowledgments	p. xv
January-june 1945	p. 3
To J. A. Holmes	p. 4
To Wallace H. White, Jr	p. 5
To Helen Taft Manning	p. 5
To Charles W. Tobey	p. 6
To John W. Bricker	p. 7
To Herbert C. Hoover	p. 8
Statement on the Full Employment Bill	p. 9
To Robert Moses	p. 12
To Helen Taft Manning	p. 13
To Republican Members of the Education and Labor Committee	p. 14
To Edwin M. Irish	p. 16
To Charles R. Hook	p. 16
Statement on Fair Employment Practice Commission Bill	p. 17
To William M. Jennings	p. 19
To Hulbert Taft	p. 20
Remarks on the Training of Draftees Sent into Combat	p. 20
To Joseph N. Pew, Jr	p. 23
To John T. Mcnicholas	p. 24
To H. D. Mcclelland	p. 24
To Isabel Bacon La Follette	p. 25
Speech on Compulsory Labor Draft Bill	p. 26
To George M. Toewater	p. 31
Address at Testimonial Dinner for Dr. Abba Hillel Silver	p. 32
To Roy Wilkins	p. 37
To Edward R. Stettinius, Jr	p. 38
Address on the Public Debt Act of 1945	p. 39
To Mabel Clark Brown	p. 41
To A. C. Smith	p. 42
To Ernest J. Bohn	p. 42
To Guy M. Gillette	p. 43
To Charles D. Hilles	p. 44
To Tom Oakes	p. 45
To Robert I. Ingalls	p. 45
To Charles D. Hilles	p. 46
To Herbert C. Hoover	p. 47
Republican Article, "Sen. Robert A. Taft: Against Postwar Military Training"	p. 48
Radio Statement at Columbus Town Meeting	p. 55
To Charles S. Davis	p. 57
Statement on a Fair Employment Practices Commission	p. 58
July-december 1945	p. 59
To Horace D. Taft	p. 60
To Robert F. Wagner	p. 62
To Paul P. Cret	p. 63
To David S. Ingalls	p. 65
Radio Address on Full Employment	p. 66
Memorial for Hiram Johnson	p. 70
To Paul Bellamy	p. 70
To Morton Bodfish	p. 71
To Harlan J. Bushfield	p. 72
To Julius Klein	p. 72
To Howard E. Campbell	p. 73
To Charles E. Pond	p. 74
To Robert Taft, Jr	p. 75
To Josephine F. Rollman	p. 77
To Margaret Baker	p. 78
To Harold A. Broda	p. 79
Notes on Compulsory Military Training Speech	p. 79
To Blanca Noel Taft	p. 80
Speech to the Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Organizations	p. 82
To Chester Bowles	p. 91
To Katherine Kennedy Brown	p. 92
To Edward F. Hoban	p. 93
To Hugh Colville	p. 94
To Edwin Borchard	p. 95
To Clyde W. Sullivan	p. 95
To Harry F. Byrd	p. 96
To Charles G. Mortimer, Jr	p. 97
To Herbert C. Hoover	p. 98
To Joseph R. Hirt	p. 98
Speech to Ohio Home Builders Association	p. 99
To Charles H. Forster	p. 99
To Clyde W. Sullivan	p. 105
January-june 1946	p. 107
To Herbert C. Hoover	p. 108
Speech to Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce	p. 109
To Frank Murphy	p. 118
To Mark Woods	p. 118
To Hulbert Taft	p. 119
To Frederick Schneller	p. 120
To Edward A. Freking	p. 121
To William J. Kostka	p. 123
To Hulbert Taft	p. 123
To Richard Nielsen	p. 124
To Kentucky Chemical Industries, Inc	p. 126
To W. W. Trout	p. 127
To Jack B. Beardwood	p. 128
To John W. Yolton	p. 129
To H. H. Beneke	p. 130
To John T. Taylor	p. 131
To Milton Millenkopf	p. 132
To John L. Snyder	p. 132
To Clinton P. Anderson	p. 133
To Meta M. Pavlik	p. 134
To Richard B. Scandrett, Jr	p. 134
To Oscar S. Cox	p. 135
To Charles H. Williams	p. 136
To Zelma Hauenstein	p. 136
To Harry E. Davis	p. 137
To Charles P. Taft II	p. 138
To Paul W. Walter	p. 139
To Thomas E. Pool	p. 139
To Elmer F. Hunsicker	p. 140
To Lester J. Bradshaw	p. 141
To Richard A. Forster	p. 141
To Diosdado Maurillo Yap	p. 142
To H. J. Hamlin	p. 143
To Claude Pepper	p. 144
To Kenneth D. Mckellar	p. 144
To R. L. Krabach	p. 145
To R. A. Blessing	p. 146
To David S. Ingalls	p. 146
To Donald E. Fender, Sr	p. 148
To Charles R. Hook	p. 149
To Frank J. Lausche	p. 150
To Everett C. Somers	p. 151
To Katherine Fitzgerald	p. 152
To Gwen and George C. Schofield	p. 153
To Edmund E. Lincoln	p. 153
To John J. Jansen	p. 154
To Paul M. Herzog	p. 155
To J. W. Cunningham	p. 155
To Walbridge S. Taft	p. 156
To William T. Hart	p. 157
To Carl T. Rowand	p. 157
To John B. Barry	p. 158
To Frank A. Zeik	p. 159
July-december 1946	p. 161
To J. W. Whitehouse	p. 162
To Ruth N. Kendall	p. 163
To Monroe T. Vermillion	p. 163
To Harry F. Klinefelter	p. 164
To L. N. Wicklein	p. 164
To Furber Marshall	p. 165
To Carl Vitz	p. 165
To Albert Warner	p. 166
To W. E. Wright	p. 167
To Edward P. Seymour	p. 168
To Samuel E. Giudici	p. 168
To John B. Hollister	p. 169
To William J. Kostka	p. 169
Speech to Republican State Convention	p. 171
To George E. Sokolsky	p. 185
To Joseph Alsop	p. 187
To Donald F. Hughes	p. 188
To Roger V. Flory	p. 189
To Albert White	p. 190
To Russell B. Stearns	p. 190
To Richard Lloyd-Jones	p. 191
Speech at Kenyon College	p. 192
Speech to the Wayne County Medical Society	p. 202
To L. Davis	p. 212
To Marjorie Shearon	p. 213
To I. Jack Martin	p. 214
To Westbrook Pegler	p. 215
To Hugh A. Butler	p. 215
To Philip Leserman and Kingston Fletcher	p. 216
To Arthur H. Vandenberg	p. 217
Radio Broadcast on Cio-Pac	p. 217
To Joseph R. Mccarthy	p. 222
To Henry E. T. Herman	p. 223
To Robert M. La Follette, Jr	p. 223
To William H. Albers	p. 224
To Evva S. Tomb	p. 225
To Robert P. Patterson	p. 225
To Mrs. Harry C. Carpenter	p. 227
To Charles W. Holman	p. 227
To Carl H. Woiwode	p. 228
To Carl K. Matson	p. 228
To Sterling V. Mead	p. 230
To David Baylor	p. 230
To Julia E. Tolbert	p. 231
To Josiah T. Rose	p. 231
To Louis W. Noel	p. 232
To Paul H. Davis	p. 233
To Robert Snowden	p. 233
To Frank T. Hines	p. 234
To Furl Williams	p. 234
To Stanley M. Rowe	p. 235
January-June 1947	p. 237
To Kent A. Hunter	p. 238
To C. Wayland Brooks	p. 239
To Zechariah Chafee, Jr	p. 240
To John T. Graves	p. 241
To Walter H. Harnischfeger	p. 241
To E. E. Mcpherson	p. 242
To Harry H. Cook	p. 243
To Ezra H. Frye	p. 244
To George C. Marshall	p. 244
Statement on the Confirmation of David Lilienthal	p. 245
Address to Yale Alumni	p. 246
To Stanley Lamb	p. 251
Address to the American Association of School Administrators	p. 252
To Frances M. Ambler	p. 252
To Joseph A. Breig	p. 259
Statement About Aid to Turkey and Greece	p. 260
To Charles A. Halleck	p. 261
To George F. Eyrich, Jr	p. 261
To William C. Woellner, Sr	p. 262
To Arthur H. Vandenberg	p. 263
To L. H. Foster	p. 263
To G. Mason Owlett	p. 264
To Herbert U. Nelson	p. 265
To William M. Chadbourne	p. 266
To Robert Taft, Jr	p. 267
To R. G. Denmead	p. 267
To Sidney B. Thompson	p. 268
To Richard Newman	p. 269
To Claude O. Vardaman	p. 269
To Charles W. Tobey	p. 270
To Porter R. Chandler	p. 271
To H. Styles Bridges	p. 272
To Joseph W. Alsop, Jr	p. 273
To Alf M. Landon	p. 274
To Andrew B. Wallace, Jr	p. 274
To Leland J. Gordon	p. 275
To George A. Paddock, Jr	p. 276
Press Release on Wages and Prices	p. 276
To Kent S. Clow	p. 279
To Charles E. Barker	p. 280
To Agnes E. Meyer	p. 281
Statement on Labor	p. 281
To Henry La Cossitt	p. 282
To Eleanor Chase Taft	p. 283
To Hamilton A. Long	p. 284
To Francis Gilman Blake	p. 284
To Dorothy Thompson	p. 285
To Paul W. Walter	p. 286
To Wesley A. Sturges	p. 288
To Grenville Clark	p. 289
To Frederick A. Philippi	p. 290
To Lawrence S. Price	p. 291
To Darwin Kindler	p. 291
To Marrs Mclean	p. 292
To Lawrence K. Shaver	p. 293
July-December 1947	p. 295
To Carl J. Anderwald	p. 296
To George E. Bedell, Jr	p. 297
To Tom Swope	p. 298
To Roger Faherty	p. 299
To Walter Harnischfeger	p. 299
To Charles I. Schottland	p. 300
To Lewis B. Rock	p. 300
To Charles D. Hilles	p. 301
To Herbert C. Hoover	p. 301
To Robley D. Stevens	p. 303
To Julia M. Brambilla	p. 303
To W. Lee O'Daniel	p. 304
To Charles P. Taft II	p. 304
To Harold A. Jones	p. 305
To I. Jack Martin	p. 306
Statement on the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947	p. 307
Address to the Republican Organizations of Los Angeles County	p. 310
To Arthur H. Vandenberg	p. 321
To Herbert C. Hoover	p. 322
To Fred H. Johnson	p. 322
Excerpt from Address to the National Association of Cost Accountants	p. 323
To Harold Knutson	p. 324
To Arthur Krock	p. 325
Radio Broadcast on Price Controls	p. 326
To Grier Bartol	p. 332
To Paul L. Burkhard	p. 333
To Ralph E. Flanders	p. 334
To Alfred A. Dustin	p. 335
To Marrs Mclean	p. 335
To Charles F. Taplin	p. 336
To John Brashler	p. 337
To William E. Clow, Jr	p. 338
To Omar N. Bradley	p. 338
Speech to the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia	p. 339
To Howard H. Buffett	p. 348
To Robert Taft, Jr	p. 348
To Vincent Starzinger	p. 349
To Arthur E. Roberts	p. 349
To John G. Forrest	p. 350
To Ernest C. Kanzler	p. 351
To Daniel W. Farnsworth	p. 352
To Frank E. Gannett	p. 352
To Josiah T. Rose	p. 353
Address to the John Marshall Club	p. 354
To Alfred M. Landon	p. 364
To Grant Reynolds	p. 364
To Charles F. Buck	p. 365
To Julius Klein	p. 366
To Ralph M. Shaw	p. 366
To Paul Kruse	p. 367
To William Grossman	p. 368
To Thomas Hewes	p. 369
January-June 1948	p. 371
To Marion F. Graven	p. 372
To Archibald B. Roosevelt	p. 372
Address on the Abc Radio Network	p. 373
To Donald C. Rowley	p. 378
To Felix Morley	p. 379
To George H. Bender	p. 380
To William D. Lotspeich	p. 381
To George C. Marshall	p. 382
To M. Cooper Judy	p. 382
To E. Kendall Gillett	p. 383
To Vincent Starzinger	p. 384
To A. Philip Randolph	p. 384
Speech to the Inland Daily Press Association	p. 385
Speech to the Lincoln Club of Denver	p. 391
To W. M. Espy, Sr	p. 399
Speech to Economic Club of Detroit	p. 400
To Parke Kerbaugh	p. 410
Statement on the President's Message	p. 411
To Lee L. Garling	p. 412
To Ernest H. Gilbert	p. 413
To John Houston Craige	p. 413
To Francis P. Keough	p. 414
Form Letter to Republican National Convention Delegates	p. 414
To George J. Rehring	p. 418
To Grenville Clark	p. 419
To Carl Murphy	p. 419
To Harris J. Levine	p. 420
To Katharine Kennedy Brown	p. 421
Speech to National Restaurant Association	p. 422
Speech at Steubenville Grant High School	p. 423
To William Logan Martin	p. 432
To Emanie N. Arling	p. 432
Radio Address on Democracy	p. 433
To Charles E. Mason	p. 435
To J. T. Meek	p. 436
To Joseph Scott	p. 436
To Walter Winchell	p. 437
To Ernest L. Klein	p. 438
To Hugh A. Butler	p. 439
July-December 1948	p. 441
To Sinclair Weeks	p. 442
To Hugh A. Butler	p. 443
To Frederick Ware	p. 444
To Vincent Starzinger	p. 444
To R. M. Edwards	p. 446
To Reuben Herzfeld	p. 446
To Sterling Morton	p. 447
Radio Address	p. 447
To Miner W. Tuttle	p. 453
To Adelaide Doig	p. 454
To Charles F. Roos	p. 455
To Robert B. Snowden	p. 455
To Robert Fuoss	p. 457
To Alfred A. Dustin	p. 458
Speech to Republican Rally	p. 459
To Henry R. Luce	p. 466
Statement on Recognition of Israel	p. 468
To Harry S. Truman	p. 470
To Lewis L. Strauss	p. 470
Draft Statement on European Trip	p. 471
To Alfred M. Landon	p. 474
To George H. E. Smith	p. 474
To Valentine B. Deale	p. 475
To E. J. Rousuck	p. 476
To Martin H. Imholt	p. 476
To A. O. Tittmann	p. 477
To Elroy J. Kulas	p. 478
To D. A. Patterson	p. 479
To Alfred A. Dustin	p. 479
To John B. Happ	p. 480
Bibliography	p. 483
Index	p. 491
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