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...history of the U. S. was peacetime conscription. Passed were bills to spend $16,920,627,477.15 ($9,114,345,921.58 worth for defense). Last week, weary with waiting, watching and working, its "must" legislation complete and a new Congress about to convene in six weeks, the 76th Congress hoped it could go home and relax...
Inside the Capitol and up & down the three vast office buildings, plans were laid for the first session of the 77th Congress. Main piece of business was to get rid of Session III of the 76th, which still dragged its wounded length along. This session had sat almost as long as any Congress, had approved more peacetime appropriations: $23,135,740,635,15. (Even the 23-odd billions did not include long-range commitments of $4,000,000,000 for the two-ocean Navy...
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Last week the most mismanaged bill of the 76th Congress passed the Senate. Few Senators understood it; none liked it. Neither did anybody else. The bill was an important one-an Excess Profits Tax Act. Last month Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the nearest thing to a friend the bill has, called it the "most intricate tax bill ever presented to Congress." At that time it was 96 pages long. By last week it had grown to 489 pages, weighed 1 Ib. 7 oz. without binding, and had progressed from intricacy to metaphysics. Senator...
...week Planter Westrick had become something of a public issue. After the management of the Plaza decided that his further residence there might involve it in the preliminaries of World War III, New York's untiring anti-Nazi Columnist Walter Winchell uncovered him at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison & 76th St.) under the name of Dr. Webster...