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Rest, Ruml & Revolt. What would the 78th Congress, First Session, have to answer...
Among the 531 members of the 78th were 108 complete freshmen, and many another sophomore-men & women to whom Washington itself was a strange, curious place, to whom the actual process of legislation was now shown to be not a mere matter of making a deathless speech, or of voting courageously, but an extraordinarily complicated and wearisome process demanding long hours of excruciatingly boring work...
WASHINGTON--American airmen, hammering Jap positions northwest of U. S.-held Guadalcanal, have staged their 78th raid on the big enemy base at Munda and scored bomb hits on a transport and corvette off Vella Lavella Island, the Navy disclosed today. Both of the enemy vessels were left burning...
...78th Congress had yet to enact an important law-yet by last week it had reversed the whole legislative trend of the last ten years. For a decade Congress, at the Administration's prodding, has hounded economic royalists, corporations, public utilities. Now the 78th, turning squarely around, was hounding the Administration...
From the acts and opinions of their Congressmen the U.S. people last week could piece together an authoritative index of some problems they fare in 1943. No paramount issue of U.S. policy, foreign or domestic, had yet been placed for action before the new and determined 78th Congress, but the Senators and Representatives were making news all over the lot. Some was good, old-fashioned rowdy Congressional news which revolved around personalities; some reflected the serious tone of a Congress engaged...