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...extraordinary record of accomplishment. More than a decade ago, domestic legislation had been laid aside when Dr. Win-the-War, as F.D.R. phrased it, replaced Dr. New Deal. After the war. Harry Truman adopted the tactic of asking Congress for what he knew it would refuse. He berated the 80th Congress (Republican) as "do-nothing." The 81st and 82nd Congresses (Democratic) also did little...
...speech he had heard while serving in the House in 1948. He could not even remember the speaker's name, only that he was a Pennsylvania Republican who had impressed both sides of the aisle during debate on Marshall Plan aid. Case broke out a directory of the 80th Congress and glanced over the Pennsylvania delegation until he came to the name he was looking for: E. Wallace Chadwick, Chester, Pa. corporation lawyer. Case then turned to the Congressional Record and found the speech, in which Chadwick had protested a proposed $1.3 billion cut in foreign...
Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...
...motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood up to tell West Branch and the U.S. what a statesman of 80-"a long...
...Jockey Ray York booted home this winner of the 80th Kentucky Derby...