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...Congress, Joe Baldwin* has tried to do more than that. Since he reached the House in a 1941 by-election, he has jumped political party fences as often and agilely as a spring lamb. In the 79th Congress, out of 57 major party votes, he has bolted 21 times (he voted against perpetuation of the Dies Committee, against emasculating the Full Employment Bill, against returning the USES to the States, against crippling...
...79th Congress, which has taken to starting self-consciously every time congressional salaries are mentioned, had an unusually jumpy week...
...Randall had had his wings clipped by the 49th Congress. The 79th was clicking its shears at Clarence Cannon's committee...
While all this was going on, the President sent a message urging Congress to pass a bill that may add a chapter to the quietly discordant history of the 79th Congress. It was the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill for a national health insurance plan, to be paid in part by compulsory salary deductions, in part from the Treasury, i.e., by added taxes. The bill, enthusiastically backed by Harry Truman, would guarantee medical care and hospitalization to every U.S. citizen working for a living, and for his dependents...
...Neufchâteau's one big street; he turned loose barbaric French at passing girls; they giggled, and swept on. Wearily he jerked his, thumb towards the hilltop graveyard on the edge of town. He said: "My division liberated this joint. A lot of the boys from the 79th are lying up there. And for what? To have these people spit...