Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start had been slow, not to say a little embarrassing, in view of the early January confidence of such Republican leaders as Senator Robert Taft. G.O.P. leaders probably should have known better. No new Congress could turn out legislation the way Taft and others had indicated that the 80th would. Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with the air of a man who has just passed a damp baby to someone else. Congress had had to wrestle with a full-scale reorganization (under the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization...
...bigoted Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo from taking his seat in the Senate, had finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...other fields, the 80th Congress voted a Constitutional Amendment to limit U.S. Presidents to two terms, ended OPA for good, ended sugar rationing as of Oct. 31, and wiped out portal-to-portal pay. By declining to take any action on reciprocal trade, it gave the Administration a little longer to hack away at barriers to world trade...
Against Tyranny. The House's avowed aim was to bring an end to "widespread industrial strife." That had also been the avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
...about the cloakrooms, smoking and gossiping. At the appointed time they walked back in. No one wanted to say much; everyone's mind was made up. In a few minutes it was all over and David E. Lilienthal-center of the most violent controversy which had touched the 80th Congress-was confirmed as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...