Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the fence, the Democratic National Committee was preparing for the formal opening of its campaign with appropriate war dances at Indianapolis on Sept. 16. Warming up, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore made a nationally broadcast answer to President Eisenhower's report on the 83rd Congress. Gore charged the Administration with "weakness, timidity and vacillation" on important issues, e.g., world trade. In Chicago Adlai Stevenson told the A.F.L. electrical workers' convention that "this has been a year of futility-or worse-in meeting ... the problem of labor-management relationship...
...cannot be issued after 6 p.m. Its 2,300,000 maps need far more space. For lack of funds, its collection of 2,234,000 photos and slides is kept filed away instead of being exhibited throughout the country. Despite President Eisenhower's request for more funds, the 83rd Congress has appropriated only $8,965,000-a decrease of 5%-to help new Librarian Mumford take care of the nation's cramped study...
Deviltry Halted. Despite the scourge. the 83rd Congress had an extraordinary record of accomplishment. More than a decade ago, domestic legislation had been laid aside when Dr. Win-the-War, as F.D.R. phrased it, replaced Dr. New Deal. After the war. Harry Truman adopted the tactic of asking Congress for what he knew it would refuse. He berated the 80th Congress (Republican) as "do-nothing." The 81st and 82nd Congresses (Democratic) also did little...
...83rd was not distinguished by great debates nor marked by sharp party cleavage. But the Administration took Congress seriously, and Congress took itself seriously. It worked haltingly and messily-but very hard. When the session ended, it became plain that Eisenhower and his congressional leaders between them had halted and perhaps reversed the drift toward welfare-statism...
...American Machine & Foundry Co.). To succeed Smith, President Eisenhower last week appointed Herbert Hoover Jr., 51, son of the Republican ex-President. Hoover Jr. is a tall, unassuming engineer with diplomatic talents who carried off the oil settlement in Iran (TIME, Aug. 16). In the last hours of the 83rd Congress, the Senate confirmed Hoover's appointment without debate or dissent. He will take over his new job in October...