Robert Taft

Examples of Robert Taft in the following topics:

• Labor Management Relations Act

  • The Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Amendment) is a U.S federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • The act was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which Congress passed in 1935.
  • President Harry Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley, but Congress overrode his veto.
  • Examine the Taft-Hartley Act's impact on the National Labor Relations Act

• Domestic Conservatism

  • Opposition to the New Deal also came from the Old Right, a group of conservative free-market anti-interventionists, originally associated with midwestern Republicans led by Hoover and Robert A.
  • Taft, the son of former President William Howard Taft.
  • Its most prominent leaders were Senator Robert Taft (R-OH) and Senator Richard Russell (D-GA).
  • Robert Taft unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 1940, 1948, and 1952, and was an opponent of American membership in NATO and of American participation in the Korean War.

• Labor-Management Relations Act

  • The Labor-Management Relations Act (or the Taft-Hartley Act) is a U.S. federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A.
  • The principal author of the Taft–Hartley Act was J.
  • Mack Swigert of the Cincinnati law firm Taft, Stettinius & Hollister.
  • Taft–Hartley was one of more than 250 union-related bills pending in both houses of Congress in 1947.

• National Labor Relations Act

  • The Taft-Hartley Amendment of 1947 is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
  • The act was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A.

• The Election of 1952

  • Eisenhower, who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing, and Governor Earl Warren of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters.
  • Eisenhower scored a major victory in the New Hampshire primary when his supporters wrote his name onto the ballot, giving him an upset victory over Taft.
  • When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
  • Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates.
  • The convention voted to support Fair Play, and Taft lost many Southern delegates.

• Modern Republicanism

  • The first Republican president in 20 years, Eisenhower was a moderate conservative who challenged Taft's international policies.
  • In 1952, a small group of Republicans drafted an internationalist allied with Thomas Dewey as a GOP candidate in order to challenge Robert A.
  • Taft on foreign policy issues.
  • While they differed on foreign policy, Taft and Eisenhower were not far apart on domestic issues.
  • Compare and contrast Taft and Eisenhower's approaches to foreign and domestic policy.

• Landrum-Griffin Act

  • It was sponsored by Democrat Phil Landrum and Republican Robert P.
  • After passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, the number of union victories in NLRB-conducted elections declined.
  • But in that first year after passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, unions only won around 70 percent of the representation elections conducted by the agency.
  • Organized labor opposed the act because it strengthened the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
  • Twenty years after the passage of the Act, co-sponsor Senator Robert Griffin extolled its success in writing, saying: "Today, nearly two decades after enactment, it is undeniable that the Landrum-Griffin Act has played a significant role in enabling union members to participate more freely in the affairs of their unions.

• Taft and Roosevelt

  • Differences between Republicans Taft and Roosevelt served to split the Republican party, resulting in Democrat Wilson's win in 1912.
  • In response, Taft soon decided that he would focus on canvassing for delegates and not attempt at the outset to confront Roosevelt.
  • Taft thought that, despite probable defeat, the Republican party had been preserved as "the defender of conservative government and conservative institutions. " However Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee, was elected with 41% of the popular vote, Roosevelt 27%, and Taft, 25%.
  • In part, Taft's defeat resulted from his weakness as a campaigner.
  • Furthermore, Taft's indifference towards the press (he once sought to legislatively abolish the press' reduced tariff rates on print paper and wood pulp) meant that he was an unpopular figure for political journalists and commentators, and the press seized the opportunity to lash out at Taft during the election.

• From Roosevelt to Taft

  • In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan.
  • The U.S. presidential election of 1908 was between Republican Party candidate William Howard Taft and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
  • Republicans used the slogan: "Vote for Taft now, you can vote for Bryan anytime," a sarcastic reference to Bryan's two failed previous presidential campaigns.
  • Portrait of William Howard Taft, the Republican Party candidate in the presidential election of 1908.
  • This map showing the 1908 presidential election results uses blue to denote states won by Bryan/Kern, and red to denote those won by Taft/Sherman.

• Ballinger and Pinchot

  • Taft agreed on the need for conservation, but felt it should be accomplished by legislation rather than by executive order.
  • Roosevelt was surprised at the replacement, believing that Taft had promised to keep Garfield, and this change was one of the events that caused Roosevelt to realize that Taft would choose different policies.
  • At the same time, Taft tried to amicably resolve the problem with Pinchot and affirm his administration's pro-conservation stance.
  • During Taft's administration, a rift grew between Roosevelt and Taft as they became the leaders of the Republican Party's two wings: the Progressives, led by Roosevelt, and the Conservatives, led by Taft. 
  • This cartoon shows Taft and Roosevelt, who were political enemies in 1912.