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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic issues he voted against TVA, AAA, NRA, Securities Exchange Act. He voted for the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the NorrIS-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act; but from 1941 he has supported every important bill designed to balance the rights and duties of labor. In 1941, he voted against extending conscription and arming merchant ships, thereafter led the Republican minority in support of all war-winning measures. He voted for Bretton Woods, the United Nations. In 22 years in Congress he has had his name on no important bill...
...also largely responsible for inclusion of aid-to-China in the ERP package. In domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican legislation such as the Taft-Hartley act. He has made it clear to Senators Vandenberg and Taft that they must stay on their own side of the Hill, that he is running the House. He stepped boldly into the national limelight recently to intercede in the coal strike...
...ratings the people were three months ahead of Congress on the draft in 1940, nine months ahead on repeal of the neutrality embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll preferences, the U.S. would now have universal military training, price control, rationing, direct election of the President and a 49th state (Hawaii...
...Last week there were no signs of either. Jewish successes had consolidated the Arabs as never before. In anger and wounded pride Arabs cried out against their leaders. The prestige of Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, sagged lower & lower. The Arab League was under pressure to act quickly. Said the Cairo daily Al Balagh: "We can no longer suffer one catastrophe after another. Zionism in Palestine means that no Arabs will be left...
...mere medical publishing house like W. B. Saunders Co. can make big money on Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (at $6.50), a lot of other publishers would like to get in the act. This week, with the Kinsey Report still high (No. 3) on the non-fiction bestseller list, publishers were scrambling to turn out volumes appraising Kinsey's statistics, arguing with Kinsey's conclusions-or just riding the Kinsey bandwagon...