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...77th Extraordinary Session of the Imperial Diet bowed itself into history on Nov. 21, 1941. The world then saw no hint in the reported proceedings of an event scheduled for Dec. 7. Later the double-talk about "immutable resolution" and "exhaustible patience" proved to have great meaning...
...steam from a kettle, coils of debate had risen endlessly from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House was now preparing to vote on the same anti-poll tax bill that had been filibustered to death by a group of Southern Senators at the close of the 77th Congress (TIME...
Farm Strategy. Three times in the 77th Congress the farm bloc had been whipped in its effort to write the cost of farm labor into the farm parity formula. Last week the House Agricultural Committee quietly approved a bill which would do it all over again. Although the bill would add another $3½ billions to the nation's food costs, the committee did not bother to ask the opinion of OPA Boss Prentiss Brown-who had fought the issue as a Senator last year-or of Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes. Said the bill's sponsor, Georgia...
...legal definitions of "robbery" and "extortion." Labor unions were not mentioned by name but the effect was to outlaw truck-stopping by the teamsters and any similar practices by other unions. Labor leaders protested the bill would do more-outlaw legitimate activities by unions. The bill died with the 77th Congress...
...member of the Senate's Banking and Currency Committee, Prentiss Brown did more than any other one man to write Franklin Roosevelt's new inflation controls (over wages and farm prices) into law last fall. In a single powerful speech-one of the greatest of the 77th Congress-he shattered farm-bloc opposition, saved the day for the Administration, earned Franklin Roosevelt's gratitude. Like many a good man before him, he now takes his reward in a harder, meaner assignment: a job that nobody but a Leon Henderson would want and that few men would accept...