Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Vice President Alben William Barkley will step up on the rostrum of the U.S. Senate with his gavel, and the 83rd Congress will come to order. The Senate and the House will organize, and then will begin a resolute fortnight of shadow boxing...
...first days, the Republican 83rd will receive a series of messages from President Harry Truman. His remarks on the way out are expected to extol the Democratic record, challenge the Republicans to do what he wants-and produce little, if any, result. The Congress will be waiting for another series of messages: the program Dwight Eisenhower will outline after he is inaugurated...
None & Nine. The 83rd will be the first Republican Congress in 24 years to organize under a G.O.P. President. None of the 48 Republicans in the Senate and only nine- of the 221 in the House have ever served under a President from their own party. In this unaccustomed role, the Republicans of the 83rd will not arrive in Washington bursting with self-starting initiative. They will be waiting to fall in behind the new President. After Jan. 20, he is expected to go before Congress personally to present his program. Among the major problems Congress will have to buckle...
Whenever two or more Republican Senators get together these days, there is talk about organization of the 83rd Congress. A question that often comes up: what to do about Oregon's Wayne Morse, the Fair Dealer with the Republican label who read himself out of the G.O.P. this year and supported the Democratic national ticket. Last week the G.O.P. Senators had not found the answer, but they were showing unusual interest in a Republican historical note. When the 69th Congress convened in March 1925, the Republicans in the Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee...
...spritely elders were still on the go. Former Vice President John Nance Garner left his home in Uvalde and took to the hills of southwest Texas to celebrate his 84th birthday with a deer hunt. In Washington, Clark Griffith, owner-president of the Washington Senators, celebrated his 83rd birthday with some 180 friends and fans, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Griffith's birthday wish: to see his team win another American League pennant (it has won three since he started as manager in 1912) before he retires...