Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman sent his fifth veto* to the 80th Congress last week. This time it was the wool bill...
...mother's lemon meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America. Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress...
Having used up his full ten days of grace, President Truman must tomorrow either approve or reject the 80th Congress' stab into organized labor's bowels, the Taft-Hartley Bill. Faced with this and three other measures designed to break finally the New Deal's influence on the country, the President must realize that this week the long-pending fight between a Republican legislature and Democratic executive has come out into the open, and will remain aired until next year's crucial elections swing political fortunes either way. Should Mr. Truman concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve...
...80TH CONGRESS...
Capitol Hill was buzzing last week with reports of a two-hour conference between Secretary of State George Marshall and two of the 80th Congress' toughest characters. They were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges and New York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...