Word: 77th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the President shut his door. He was confident that he was armed with the weapon of popular support as he sat down, in seclusion, to write his message to the 77th Congress...
...President leaned heavily on the rostrum, threw open the big black leather binder, straightway began his message to the 77th Congress on the State of the Union. Outside the Capitol, roped-off on the stretching plaza, stood hundreds of people. Many had been there since early morning. They could see and hear nothing in particular. They were just there...
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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...given to Britain. Tuesday's election did not decide that question. It did decide, by the closeness of the vote, that constructive criticism and calm restraint, rather than a hasty and well-greased O.K. to the presidential preferences, is the kind of effectiveness which must be forthcoming from the 77th Congress. Without this attitude, and with a slavish legislative subservience to Unity or the Mandate from the People, America will soon find itself at self...