Word: 84th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic 84th Congress sat down in Washington, polished off its major organizational problems, vowed unflagging good will toward one and all,* and started elbowing for position...
...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...
Caucus in Bed. It was a dignified, simple ceremony, as the 84th Congress convened last week, and one that pleased Neuberger, who, unlike his senior colleague from Oregon, has resolved to be humbly uncontroversial for a while and to make a good impression on his fellow Senators. Since his election he had prudently declined nearly all of the 168 invitations to speak and appear on radio and television, in the tradition that Senate freshmen should be seen and not heard...
...issued a formal statement that called the vote a matter of "great gratification." Relieved of the necessity for an agonizing reappraisal, Ike had a few days of relative relaxation before flying back to Washington this week for a conference with G.O.P. congressional elders on his legislative program for the 84th Congress...
...prospects for harmony on many domestic issues seem equally good. Democratic House Leader McCormack went so far as to call some of the President's proposals "New Dealish." In all, it seems that the Democrats are determined not to be responsible for a "good-for-nothing, do-nothing" 84th Congress...