Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time in 32 days, last week the President vetoed a tax-reduction bill which had been passed by an overwhelming majority of Congressmen...
...loudly proclaimed that the bill was bad because it favored the uncommon more than the common income. Actually the bill provided that taxes should be reduced three times as much on small incomes as on big ones. Harry Truman had taken this dubious line in his first veto. This time he came down hard on another reason: while the world was in such a critical state, "it is unwise to make so large a cut in our Government's future income...
...Congress might have done in this period. A speedy application of European relief not only would serve one of the greatest humanitarian needs of all time, but would, by concrete evidence, give Europeans something to thing about in favor of American and her system of government. Tiredly shelving a bill to help solve the DP problem by letting some immigrants into the country, Congress has instead pushed to absured measures the attempt to "roundup" communists, whose influence of course is nil in a country as rich as the U.S. today...
...Congress' record has not been all black. The bill to merge the armed forces, which is being pushed to passage this week, has been long needed, and will straighten out a host of pointless complexities, New, as Congressional investigating committees rush out to diverse points, hope must be suspended until next January. Perhaps then the legislators will form a consistent policy, a little more free from more sniping at the administration, as to what will eventually do the country most good. This will have to include a broad program of European relief and an understanding as to what part will...
...CRIMSON said, this is not the intention of the Bill of Rights, because the CRIMSON doesn't want its presses smashed when it prints the kind of editorial it did. And it is not the privilege of crypto-Communists like RW, TW, WW, and AdB to give the Bill such an interpretation when it suits their fancy. All parties are to have an equal right before the law, and private persons are not to take over the police function at any time. Every citizen has a great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing...