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...26th special session in U.S. history and the first since September 1939, when Roosevelt called one to revise the Neutrality Act...
...grant independence to Burma, to nationalize the gas industry, and to revamp the criminal code. Tucked in among the expected announcements was one bombshell sentence which hit Tory, peer and commoner alike. "Legislation," said the King in his slightly halting voice, "will be introduced to amend the Parliament Act...
Wing Clipping. It was the opening shot in Labor's campaign to clip the wings of the House of Lords. As Prime Minister Attlee explained to the House of Commons later, the 1911 act prevented the Lords from holding up "money bills" introduced in the House of Commons, but the Lords could still block any other legislation for a period of two years. Labor wanted the delaying power cut to one year. Attlee's main interest in the matter was to insure clear passage of Labor's forthcoming bill to nationalize iron and steel. From the Tory...
...Stoopnagle, 50, isn't quite sure how it happened. "It's funny," he says; "they just started laughing again. And this time they laugh right out loud-in the studio. Kinda scared me at first. I remember when they'd pull a long face at my act, and wouldn't double-take until they were at least three blocks away from the station...
...purchase on the home market and increase the number of bidders for American products; while if inflation gets out of control America will experience a crisis which will render it unable to give foreign aid on any appreciable scale. A Republican Congress, however, can hardly be expected to act on such an hypothesis...