Word: 77th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...face appeared in Congress last week-and a pretty one. Katharine Edgar Byron was the fifth Congressional widow to take her seat in the 77th Congress. (Altogether, nine Congressmen wear skirts.) Unlike her distinguished widowed colleagues, Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Margaret Smith, Frances Bolton, Mrs. Byron did not slide easily into her late husband's place. She won it the hard way-by licking a veteran, C.I.0.-backed opponent...
...three days of general debate 111 members made speeches, some of them many times. The tone had been quiet, generally. Observers noted that, if the 77th is a war Congress, it is unlike every such U. S. Congress heretofore. Nearly every speaker on both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried...
...Signed the 77th Congress' first law: a $300,000,000 authorization to install modern anti-aircraft defenses on warships...
Minutes later, the 77th Congress rose from its predecessor's ashes. The phoenix nest where this political rebirth occurred looked not unlike a bird cage, thanks to a network of steel girders, erected temporarily to hold up the aged and rickety Congressional roof...
Organized, sworn in and prayed over, at week's end the 77th Congress recessed until this week, to meet then in joint session and hear the President's report on the State of the Union...