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Everyone assumed that the special, temporary Dies committee and the 78th Congress would expire together. But crafty John Rankin, champion of white supremacy and Southern womanhood, foe of civil liberties, thought otherwise...
When it met for the first time last week, nobody called the 79th a "Victory Congress." That bumptious phrase was tacked to the 78th, which had hoped to help write the peace, had watched Germany's stubborn legions postpone the day of victory. This setback had also changed the outlook for the 79th, which had anticipated in November's piping days that its main tasks would be to organize the peace and to legislate the U.S. back to a peacetime economy. Now the first job was an old job: get on with...
...Beardsley Ruml and Hans Christian Sonne, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Planning Pamphlet No. 35 (25?), National Planning Assoc.; Employment Policy (60?), Macmillan; Sir William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society (sixpence), New Statesman and Nation and Reynolds News; Full Employment Bill of 1945, 78th Congress, and Session...
...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...
Shortly before he died, in his 78th year, the artist summed up the major interest of his working years. Said he: "If I had been an oyster, I'd have drawn girl oysters. Wherever I looked I saw those beautiful girls, and who was I to resist...