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Democratic 81st Congress, he had never had an ideological majority. Of the 24 major measures he asked for in January, Congress in five months had enacted only one-extension of rent control...
...labor law is badly needed. It is needed so badly that President Truman cannot afford to match his stubbornness and pride with that of the opposition. If any one thing is obvious from the first quarter of the 81st Congress, it is that the Fair Deal is going to get no free ride. Truman can do much by astute juggling; the labor bill should be the first item on the program...
Back at work and glowing with good will, Harry Truman wanted the balky members of the 81st Congress to know he was ready to talk things over at any time. To make sure he would be there to greet all callers, he canceled his four out-of-town dates for April-a speech at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this...
...full swing. Marine air groups at Tsingtao, Guam and Ewa (outside Pearl Harbor) had been pulled back to the mainland; naval air headquarters was moving to San Diego and closing down four of its five air stations on Oahu. The Air Force was preparing to send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion of the Pacific would be little...
...facto political party in America was founded on the floor of the Senate tonight . . . We shall see whether the future voting record in the Senate does not also indicate that in a large measure this coalition predicts what will happen to great pieces of social legislation in the 81st Congress...