Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Representatives insisted upon calling this measure a 'housing bill.' " This "hasty patchwork," he said, failed to provide farm housing, slum clearance, financial aid for large-scale home construction, prefabricated housing, or low-cost rental housing. Cried Harry Truman: "In this case, as in many others, the 80th Congress has failed miserably...
...order of the 80th Congress, postal authorities prepared designs of 15 new stamp issues memorializing, among other things, the U.S. poultry industry, the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of New York City, volunteer firemen and the five "civilized" Indian tribes of Oklahoma...
...80th Congress has overridden six Truman vetoes. Andrew Johnson was overridden 15 times in his one term, Franklin D. Roosevelt nine times in four terms...
...Pourin' It On." It was plain that he intended to give Congress the business from now on. He returned to the White House with an avowal to "veto some more bills."* It was also plain that he meant to make campaign hay out of the 80th Congress' neglect of housing, reclamation, and health-insurance legislation. "Oh, I'm pourin' it on," he cried, "and I'm gonna keep pourin...
...cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach had an air of permanence-17-year-old Ajax and Meteor had performed the same job on the King's 80th birthday...