Word: 79th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy time, the 52-20 club (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was a simpler solution. But many a vet at college still felt that the Government had promised to underwrite the whole cost of his education. So did some veteran-conscious congressmen. Three bills to increase allotments died when the 79th Congress adjourned, may be up again next session...
...months the 79th Congress waded neck deep in the muck of problems deposited by war & peace. As a Congress it was no better or worse than most U.S. Congresses. The people might have hoped that its representatives would rise to a unique and critical occasion. That they did no better than they did-or no worse -should have surprised no one. They were, after all, representative of the people, and the people themselves were not yet steadied to the onslaught of peace...
Critics of the Council say it lacks guts. Zook and his aides, who prefer to avoid the arena themselves, spend a lot of time on the long-distance telephone-pressuring educators to pressure Washington. Their methods seem to work. In the 79th Congress, which adjourned last week, Zook & Co. went to bat for eight bills, made five hits (UNESCO, the Fulbright bill for war-surplus scholarships, the Mead bill to house G.I. students, Naval R.O.T.C. legislation, the Selective Service compromise on 19-year-olds...
...fetid clouds arising from the dying and now dead carcass of the 79th Congress, the passage of a bill last week of the most profound importance to America and the rest of the world has been almost totally obscured from view. A bill which provides for approximately 314 million dollars' worth of international education over the next 20 years...
...79th Congress was in the home stretch, and it could hardly wait for adjournment. But to the surprise of many, it still could lay a foundation for a more efficient legislative plant. It passed the congressional reorganization bill, sent it to the President...