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Political Alleys. During most of its next-to-last week, the 80th Congress plodded along in the heat at dogtrot pace, breaking into sprints only when it came to political alleys. The Republican majority was still out to twist the President's tail (TIME, July 14), and Harry Truman's veto of the revived tax-cut bill did not cool any tempers. Senate Republicans brought up a measure to investigate Attorney General Tom Clark's handling of a matter close to Harry Truman's home voting booth. The author of the resolution, Missouri's Senator...
Actions of Congress, however, have put Hawaii even closer to statehood than Alaska. . . . Hawaii's enabling act, appropriately dubbed H.R. 49, has been placed on the House calendar for debate during this session of the 80th Congress...
Harry Truman sent his fifth veto* to the 80th Congress last week. This time it was the wool bill...
...mother's lemon meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America. Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress...
Having used up his full ten days of grace, President Truman must tomorrow either approve or reject the 80th Congress' stab into organized labor's bowels, the Taft-Hartley Bill. Faced with this and three other measures designed to break finally the New Deal's influence on the country, the President must realize that this week the long-pending fight between a Republican legislature and Democratic executive has come out into the open, and will remain aired until next year's crucial elections swing political fortunes either way. Should Mr. Truman concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve...