Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revived, by a 26-to-11 vote of the House Agriculture Committee, the rigid 90%-parity farm program that had been killed in the 83rd Congress. The high-parity bill faces a bitter fight in the House, probably defeat in the Senate...
...would not add a cent to the national deficit since his amendment also proposed to 1) continue the present excise and, corporation-tax rates for two years instead of the one-year extension requested by the Administration, and 2) take away the dividend credit granted by the 83rd Congress to stockholders...
...students quickly got the professor's point-that there was an element of truth in each of their answers. "The next time anyone asks you, 'What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?' " Professor Hook said, "the correct answer is 'What year, please?' " In his 83rd year, Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell is busier taking up old stances than throwing fresh philosophical punches. For one brief moment in the preface of his latest book Human Society in Ethics and Politics, the old philosopher gets set to floor all previous Russells with one haymaking swing. He quotes...
More than 1,000 bills went into the House hopper on opening day. New York's Republican Representative Kenneth Keating alone introduced 45, of which he had tried to get 35 through the 83rd Congress. But the most significant thing that happened during the first week was that Speaker Rayburn designated as House Bill No. 1 a bill to carry out President Eisenhower's recommendations for a liberal foreign trade program. It is in this field that the 84th Congress has its best chance for a solid achievement...
...field of social welfare, especially, the President's proposals seem far less than adequate. With fifteen million homes classified "substandard" in the 1950 census, the President has asked Congress for the authority to build only seventy thousand public housing units in the next two years. Since the 83rd Congress refused to grant even this pittance, there is a danger that the new Congress may accept the offer. The Democrats should not be content with doing better if it is less than good enough...