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...78th Congress, after the exciting days of its birth and its blessing by Franklin Roosevelt, got to work on Capitol Hill. Its future now looked a little clearer. This was a Congress full of vim & vinegar, eager to get on with the war, busting to assert its independence, and judging by the temper of many members, eager to throw its weight in constructive rather than destructive fashion. Of party politics there would be plenty, but each side had a shrewd notion that the successful way to make political hay was to beat the other in getting on with an effective...
Reciprocal Trade. State Secretary Cordell Hull's beloved trade pacts must also be renewed or allowed to die by June. Of all early tests of the temper of the 78th Congress, this will be the most significant. Abandonment of the reciprocal trade principle would be a defeat for freedom of world markets, a victory for high-tariff isolationism. On the debate over this issue, and how it turns out, the U.S. will get its first sharp picture of how the members of both parties in the 78th Congress feel about the postwar world...
Milling Congressional veterans shouted greetings to re-elected cronies, slapped backs, shook hands. Pages guided determined-looking first-termers through the teeming lobbies. Cameras whirred beneath incandescent lights. Vice President Henry Wallace snapped a gavel in the Senate. Bald Clerk South Trimble cracked another in the House. The 78th Congress was ready for business...
Said President Roosevelt in his message to the 78th Congress: "I do not prophesy when this war will end". Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "On all fronts the outlook is favorable, but the situation does not justify extreme optimism. The German and Japanese forces have suffered relatively few major reverses. We would do very well not to overlook the offensive capabilities that still are theirs...
...task: to prevent these loose, jangling dollars from cracking the nation's economic life wide open. As of this week, he hoped to attack it with a pay-as-you-go tax plan and compulsory savings; an attack in which he would need all the help the 78th Congress, convening this week, could give...