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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...
Labor. Minimum wage of 75? an hour (now 40?); restoration to the Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
Republicans v. the People. But even more decisively than they rejected Dewey, the voters had rejected the 80th Congress. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Russell Davenport, onetime FORTUNE editor and Willkie's 1940 campaign coordinator, declared recently: "The [Republican] party has failed to inspire the American people with confidence . . . Its failure is a failure of leadership at all levels ... But, with the sole exception of the Willkie struggle, the theme for the last 16 years has been the 'Republican Party v. the People.' And the people have won." Vermont's Senator George Aiken demanded...
...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...
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...