Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Misfired his first veto at the Both Congress. The bill was a Senate resolution authorizing his old friend Burt Wheeler to continue private law practice while serving as counsel for the Senate special war investigating committee. The President vetoed it, because of technicalities, on the advice of Attorney General Tom Clark, discovered to his embarrassment that he had signed similar legislation before. To save the presidential face, the Senate agreed to redraft the bill, send it through again...
Cold Stare. The remainder of the week, Congress spent on labor, taxes and economy. With a wary but determined air, the Senate Finance Committee began hearings on the House's tax-reduction bill. Almost immediately, members were faced with the cold stare of Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Secretary Snyder was in an "adamant" mood. He stiffly reasserted the Administration's stand against tax cuts, refused to let Republican committeemen persuade him that big cuts are needed now to bolster public purchasing power, and left the anxious committee to guess whether Harry Truman would veto the final version...
Anathemas. No one seemed to fill the bill exactly. Most of the top-ranking Eastern Democrats who had proved their vote-getting ability at the polls were Roman Catholics (which would make them anathema to the Democratic South): House Minority Leader John McCormack, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, Rhode Island's fireball Freshman Senator J. Howard McGrath...
Batting averages for the rest of the active players are: Jack Forte, .150; John Caulfield .273; Jack Wallace, .272; Bill Hamlen, .265; John Coppinger, .167; Len Lunder, .207; Bill Barron, .286. Pitchers Godin and Reilly are both hitless...
When the averages are figured on the basis of the three Ivy League contests so far played results come out slightly different for Bill Fitz then leads the club with a .400 average, followed by Walt Coulson still with .333, Mariaschin with .300, and Caulfield with .308. Jack Wallace who has appeared in only one Ivy League game has a .500 mark...