Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Senator Irving M. Ives: "The defeat of the Republicans can be ascribed to . . . the inability of the 80th Congress to get together on a forward-looking, liberal program ... We are moving forward in this country. We are not static. Unless a political party recognizes that fact . . . that political party is not going to get very...
...these reasons added up to the one big reason-the voters' distrust of the Republican Party as mirrored in the 80th Congress, a distrust which Tom Dewey's promises of efficient government had never been able to erase...
...throats of the farmer and the laboring man." Some of his aides, remembering the lesson of F.D.R.'s purge, argued that personal attacks often boomeranged in favor of the target. But wherever he went, Harry Truman never ceased to "pour it on" Republican members of the 80th Congress...
...every one of the new Democratic Representatives in the 81st Congress owed as much to Harry Truman directly as did Cecil White. But most of them did owe their election to the issues which the President raised in his attacks on the 80th Congress. A few unknowns, who thought they had no chance to win, were swept in. Some, who did not subscribe to all of Harry Truman's campaign promises, were elected because of local issues. But a composite of the new congressional faces showed a political complexion much like Harry Truman's. Representative faces...
Most important problem of Muñoz' administration would be relations with the new U.S. Congress (the Republican-controlled 80th had passed the law which made his election possible). Washington thought that U.S. legislators might balk at authorizing Puerto Rico to write its own constitution, as Muñoz has recommended. But there was a good chance that Congress would give Puerto Rico a healthy economic boost by extending the Social Security Act to the overpopulated island. That would fit right into Muñoz' plans for a more prosperous Puerto Rico...