Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Vandenberg himself quickly scotched the suggestion. "Presidential succession," he said, "should first reside in the officer reflecting the largest measure of popular and representative expression at the moment of his succession." That ended that. The succession bill was passed and sent on to the House...
Other legislation stalled. The Stratton bill to allow admission to the U.S. of 400,000 displaced persons languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...
Late Approval. Just three days before June 30, the end of fiscal 1947, only the Treasury and Post Office appropriation bill had reached the President's desk. Three other appropriation bills were ready for Senate-House conferees, eight were waiting House or Senate* action. To provide pay for federal employees in fiscal 1948, Congress would have to authorize continued spending at the present rate until the legislative snarl could be untangled...
...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...
...Europe declared how much she needed. The representative of the world's first planned state came out flatly against any international planning, because it would constitute "interference with other nations' internal affairs." He demanded that each European nation assess its own national needs, and then forward the bill...