Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a Republican was growing restive over the implications of the Truman Doctrine-if only because it bore the name of the Democrat's 1948 presidential candidate. Last week the origin of the doctrine, the aid-to-Greece-and-Turkey bill, arrived on the floor of the House. The G.O.P. made it plain that every man would vote for himself. The result: four days of shrill and contentious debate which reminded observers of nothing so much as the lurid neutrality fight...
...Bipartisan. As the argument raged, delegations of U.S. Communists sat in the galleries, hissed speakers who advocated passage and thus annoyed many a wavering member into complete support of the bill. New Jersey's hulking Charles A. Eaton, aged chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pulled out a telegram from United Nations Representative Warren R. Austin. Aid to Greece and Turkey, Austin wired, was justified, would strengthen the United Nations, should be approved...
...bill passed by a vote of 287 to 107. But the close Republican vote-127 to 93-made it plain that congressional support of every phase of the Administration's foreign policy was by no means on a bipartisan basis...
Ineffective Voice. But cuts in the other departments were severe, despite the protests of Secretary of State Marshall and Secretary of Commerce Harriman. All told, in the bill reported out by trumpeting John Taber's House Appropriations Committee, State's budget was chopped down 22% (from $279 million to $219 million), Commerce's 33% (from $287 million to $191 million...
...Senate was mostly preoccupied with getting out a labor bill. The Republican majority finally reached an agreement on a bill which contained no ban on industry-wide bargaining and was much less rigorous than the one approved by the House...