Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed. At 3:50, disgruntled, unshaven and bone-weary after three nights of cat naps on cloakroom cots, the Senators tramped out into the pre-dawn darkness. The first, seven-month session of the 80th Congress was over...
...history held few more dramatic demonstrations of national unity than the 80th's record on foreign affairs. For that record, Arthur Vandenberg was largely responsible. And Congress had demonstrated resolution in some of its handling of domestic affairs. The Republicans had begun the session by refusing to seat Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, Mississippi's evangelist of racial discrimination. In passing and then re-passing the Taft-Hartley labor bill over the President's veto, Republicans and Democrats both (but mainly Republicans) had ignored the clamor from labor and also from the extreme right. The 80th...
...anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody...
Political Alleys. During most of its next-to-last week, the 80th Congress plodded along in the heat at dogtrot pace, breaking into sprints only when it came to political alleys. The Republican majority was still out to twist the President's tail (TIME, July 14), and Harry Truman's veto of the revived tax-cut bill did not cool any tempers. Senate Republicans brought up a measure to investigate Attorney General Tom Clark's handling of a matter close to Harry Truman's home voting booth. The author of the resolution, Missouri's Senator...
Actions of Congress, however, have put Hawaii even closer to statehood than Alaska. . . . Hawaii's enabling act, appropriately dubbed H.R. 49, has been placed on the House calendar for debate during this session of the 80th Congress...