Word: 84th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...84th Congress, in its second session, was an unwanted political child. It was born last January amid dire predictions that it would grow up as a ne'er-do-well in the broken election-year home of party-style Democracy and Republicanism. But it adjourned last week with surprisingly good grades in conduct...
...constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel and the members of the 84th Congress scattered to take up their cam paign cudgels...
...Gilbert decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high tribunal would be unlikely to accept the case after its contrary Nelson ruling. Second, Congress itself could broaden the intent of Federal Communist control acts to tolerate existing state laws. But such an interpretation would be valid for the 84th Congress only, and could not legally be held to apply retroactively to a case like Struik's. And, finally, in response to the petition of 42 state Attorneys General, the Federal court could hear re-argument of the Nelson case, but there is little precedent to expect the same...
...halfway point in the second session of the 84th Congress, U.S. Senators and Representatives went home last week for a ten-day Easter recess. While they rested, they could look back on three months of hard work-but no real accomplishment...
Amid the laughter in the hearing room, the exchange did not seem to contribute much to the discussion of the farm problem. But it was a timely reminder that the problem has been around, recurrently, for a long time, and that the solution decided upon by the 84th Congress-whatever it may be-is not likely to be the last...