Word: 84th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stalling for?" Speaker Rayburn gently replied that there had been no unnecessary delay. Then he carefully studied the Democratic side to make certain he had no more converts there. The results were announced-the bill passed. 206 to 201. After the liveliest political fight of the 84th Congress, the farm bill was sent to the Senate, where it has only an outside chance of passage-with or without peanuts...
...Congress, struggling to maintain unity in a divided nation, listened fearfully as John C. Calhoun mobilized the minority to arrest the will of the majority. The 39th Congress, filled with anger as it viewed the ashes of civil war, followed the vengeful leadership of Thaddeus Stevens. In 1955 the 84th Congress represents a nation long weary of crisis and war, panaceas and promises. It is symbolized by a man whose son says: "He doesn't have a remedy for everything that ails the universe." The 84th's most influential figure is Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter Franklin...
...most re-e-eason-able." In U.S. politics reasonableness has not always been the way to leadership. But Walter George's approach, leading him inevitably to the middle of the political road, is peculiarly fitted to the present mood of the nation and the problems of the 84th Congress...
...84th Congress is deeply concerned with the destiny of the U.S. in a world of upheaval. So is Walter George. The Congress is vitally interested in a stable national economy. So is George. The Congress does not seek to spoonfeed the nation with welfare cure-alls or sociological pink pills. Neither does George...
...With Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson skillfully backing him, George has effortlessly become the outstanding figure of the 84th Congress: ¶ He led the Formosa resolution, the SEATO pact and the Paris agreements to overwhelming Senate approval. When he arose to speak on the Formosa resolution one January day, there were worried, even hostile faces in the chamber. Nearly a score of Democrats were ready for a last-ditch fight against the resolution, and several Republicans had grave doubts. By the time he sat down after a brilliant oratorical display, the opposition had been shattered. Next day the resolution passed...