Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced last year's whipping boys - the 80th Congress and "selfish interests"-but he had freshened up the lines. Now, he declared, there was a "scare-word" campaign. "The people want public housing for low-income families," Truman said. "The selfish interests . . . think it will cut down on their own income so they call it 'collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program...
Slow Up. Whisked over to Des Moines in his DC-6, Truman gave the country's farmers a rousing fight talk over the heads of the delegates to the Amvets convention. "The new Congress has already repaired most of the damage done to farmers by the 80th Congress," he declared. "Of course, there are still many reactionary Senators and Representatives . . . still doing all they can to slow up our Congress, but they are not able to stop...
...Against. Against the formidable Taft, who had had his hand in virtually every important piece of domestic legislation acted on by the 80th and 81st Congresses, none of these possible Democratic candidates appeared to loom very large. But the opposition recalled how Taft had barely squeaked through against William Pickrel, a comparatively unknown Dayton lawyer, in 1944. Pickrel had faithfully echoed the policies of F.D.R. Since then Taft had made enemies by his astringent honesty, had probably lost some friends by doggedly following his conscience. The anti-Taft forces counted on a majority of Ohioans voting not for somebody...
Harry Truman had called the 80th Congress' D.P. Act "a pattern of discrimination and intolerance." The D.P. Commission had declared it "all but unworkable," because it excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics. In nine months of operation, only 34,569 had been admitted out of a two-year quota of 205,000. Last week an Administration bill to admit 339,000 D.P.s in the next two years under more generous provisions reached the floor of the House...
...Fair Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn't possibly be enacted by any Congress in seven months," he added (though Harry Truman, a year ago, had said that the "terrible" 80th Congress could pass a comparable program in 15 days, if it really wanted...