Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to say about a communication he had had from Chiang Kaishek. All but about $13 million of the $125 million Congress had appropriated for Chinese military aid had been spent, he said. He saw no point in calling a session of the "do-nothing" 80th Congress to act in the emergency...
...taxes in periods of depression. It means lacing public activity with private. The way to deal with inflation is to reduce the amount of money at the disposal of, consumers, not to reduce tax rates as the Republicans did in the inflationary periods of the twenties and as the 80th Congress did in 1948; and the manner of the ballasting the economy in depression and deflation is not the Hoover policy of economy, but the Roosevelt policy of deficit financing...
...which they themselves do not understand) can be preserved intact by a two-fold policy of mouthing archaic shibboleths long since devoid of real meaning ("A balanced budget"!, "free private enterprise"!) together with legislative obstruction of virtually all social legislation. This was well illustrated by the record of the 80th Congress. In that now infamous body conservative leaders did themselves and their conservative constituents a grave disservice by offering little more than a diet of empty cant and obstructive ugliness...
Although the legality of DP scholarships under the law passed by the 80th Congress was at first in doubt, West told the Council last night that the President's Committee administering the act has ruled that students placed in a University are considered "employed," and thus eligible for immigration...
...voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day ... When [Harry Truman] damned the 80th Congress and the Taft-Hartley law, nobody seemed really to care or to listen" (TIME...