Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Vandenberg has wholeheartedly supported the bill to aid Greece and Turkey-aid which was pointed up this week by the arrival of the U.S. aircraft carrier Leyte off Istanbul. He led the fight for the bill's passage in the Senate. There he successfully warded off the waspish Left and the economy-minded Right. Thus, if the Truman Doctrine applies only to Greek-Turkish aid, Vandenberg supports it. But he does not think that the bipartisan policy extends to the Truman Doctrine. He does not consider it a doctrine at all, but merely a "selective pattern...
...bill brought out by the G.O.P. leadership would extend rent controls until next January-and for three months longer if the President thought it necessary. But it would abolish Government controls over building materials and new construction. It brought immediate howls from both sides of the fence...
...opponents of control had pushed through an amendment permitting any local government to kill controls whenever it wished. Then a motion to send the whole bill back to committee was approved. But at the last minute, Majority Leader Charlie Halleck rushed to the chair to postpone announcement of the results, swung enough votes to save the bill...
Last week Gonzÿlez went a step farther by making his first public criticism of the Communists. The occasion was his veto of the reactionary Farm Bill (TIME, March 10) which would have virtually banned union organization of the landless campesinos. The Communists wanted a veto, but they wanted a louder one than the President gave. Gonzÿlez told a protesting Communist delegation: "I am in profound disagreement with the Communists. . . . The Communists cannot separate me from the people...
Gonzÿlez' separation from the Commies will not solve all his problems. He must still 1) find an acceptable substitute for the vetoed Farm Bill; 2) settle the still unratified trade treaty with Argentina which the Communists favored while they were in the Cabinet; 3) wangle more loans from Washington, where his anti-Communist stand will do no harm...