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...talking about President Truman's annual message to Congress on the State of the Union: His summary was correct. Standing in the congealed political atmosphere of the reassembled 80th Congress, Harry Truman had carefully spelled out in his dry, flat voice the Democratic campaign platform...
...80th Congress returned to Washington this week to face its fateful calendar...
...political zing. The only other idea was the reimposition of rationing and price control, which Harry Truman recently described as manifestations of a police state. But in their extremity that was exactly what Democratic politicos were suggesting. The tactic was politically sound: put the measure up to the 80th Congress and let the G.O.P. take the blame if prices kept on spiraling. The Democrats knew that Republicans would not vote to reimpose controls...
...Palm Springs's biggest winter season began last week, Nellie Coffman celebrated her 80th birthday by riding out to a picnic at the base of towering (10,831 ft.) Mount San Jacinto. There she got 82 birthday cakes ("two to grow on") from friends, some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...
...Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor law. He reminded his fellow Democrats that, when Congress reconvenes, the President hopes to get bipartisan support for his aid-Europe...