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...Republicans . . . voted themselves a cut in taxes and voted you a cut in freedom. The 80th Republican Congress failed to crack down on prices. But it cracked down on labor all right." He said there was "an exceedingly real possibility" of a boom-and-bust cycle if the Republicans came into power; "you can already see signs of it. The boom is on for them and the bust has begun...
...there was not much he could do about it. The Bureau is a subcontractor for the Postmaster General, and thanks to the stamp-happy 80th Congress (which invented the stunt of "directing" commemoratives instead of merely "authorizing" them, sponsored more stamps than any other Congress in history), the Postmaster General has become a kind of subcontractor for the legislators...
President Harry Truman came out swinging last week at his favorite political target - the Republican 80th Congress...
From almost every viewpoint, the special "Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...
...Department of Agriculture computed one item in the cost of keeping the nation's farmers happy. In the past five years, it announced last week, the Government has taken a $170 million loss on 196 million bushels of surplus potatoes (TIME, Aug. 9). Because the 80th Congress extended price support levels of potatoes until the whole 1948 crop was marketed, the Government was now buying potatoes at the rate of $4,000,000 a week...