Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry through a Marshall Plan to fight Communist-fomented dissatisfaction in Europe if we are unable to counter-act that very same condition here at home...
Perhaps if the Congressmen had remembered, or had thought the voters would remember, what happened last year they would not have been quite so garrulous. The President presented an executive budget of $37,500,000,000, which the Republican leaders set out to cut by $6,000,000,000. Acting under the legislative budget provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the Finance and Appropriations Committees of the Senate, and the Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees of the House met in joint session, and, by chance, arrived at the same $6,000,000,000 figure as the feasible...
...Senate hit upon a cut of $4,500,000,000. The House stuck by the original figure. A conference committee was appointed to adjust the difference; and that was the last ever to be heard from the legislative budget. One of the most valuable portions of the Legislative Reorganization Act had been emasculated by trying to use in as a political tool with which to discredit the President. Republican leaders had formulated the size of the cut before they even saw the budget...
...remembering the great strike of 1946, unions approached management in the latter half of 1947 with a sweet reasonableness that was further sugared by the Taft-Hartley Act. Management was reasonable also; it granted wage boosts, then raised prices to absorb them...
...book is finished, the reader has forgotten all but a few of them. Of the 60 sons that Perling writes about, only John Quincy Adams, a President's son and a President himself, is apt to be remembered long. Presidents' Sons is oddly content with the simple act of exhuming its subjects. They are neither understood nor studied; the only interesting possibility (the effect of their fathers' eminence on their personalities) is not even explored. Readers will learn that...