Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th Congress had done all right by its 18 million veteran-constituents. Adding up the score last week, veterans could count at least 57 new laws designed to keep them financially solvent and politically grateful. The biggest single gift was the law permitting 8,500,000 ex-enlisted men to cash in $2 billion worth of World War II terminal-leave bonds, beginning next month. The rest of the bonanza added another round $200 million. Items...
...nearly 50 years under U.S. control, Puerto Rico has elected all its own legislators. Last week, when President Truman signed a bill passed by the 80th Congress, Puerto Rico also got the right to elect its own governor, heretofore appointed by the White House. Nov. 2, 1948, general election day in the U.S., was the date set for the island's first gubernatorial election...
...record of the 80th Congress is one of Bob Taft's credentials for his candidacy, and he made the most of it. The first Republican Congress since 1931 was organized, he said, "without friction and without Bilbo." With few exceptions, "differences within the party were reconciled in the party interest." Despite criticism from "Communists, New Dealers, the C.I.O. . . . and those modern planners who do not really approve of Congress at all," the 80th passed more important laws than any previous Congress...
...economy: the 80th Congress "achieved the best economy record ever attained by a peacetime Congress in a quarter of a century and made the biggest cut in presidential recommendations for expenses since the present budget system was established in 1923." Taft's estimate of the cut: $3 billion. (Other estimates, all complicated by interpretive arithmetic, ranged up to $5 billion and down to $1 billion...
...Trail. During the 80th's sessions, Bob Taft had walked more or less silently and uncomfortably in the footsteps of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg on matters of foreign policy. He followed that trail no longer. "I am not happy," he cried, "about the country's foreign policy...