Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balance of Power. The bill had some holes in it; some of the ground rules were vaguely denned. But essentially it accomplished what Labor Chairman Fred Hartley Jr. and his committeemen wanted. It would restore the balance of power in labor dealings to management, which, in the apparent opinion of a majority of U.S. Congressmen, is where it belongs in a system of free enterprise...
...bill was still a long way from being law. On the other side of Congress, Senator Robert Taft's almost equally tough labor proposition had been flattened into a pancake by his own committee. The Senate would be more cautious in its labor legislation; in fact, some members of the House voted as they did because they felt secure in that belief. But the House's impressive vote also strengthened Taft, who now might be able to restore much of his bill. But whatever happened-a compromise between the two houses, a possible presidential veto even...
...high price of food not only harassed the housewife, it harassed an Administration caught in the middle of a world crisis. Last week, testifying on the President's $350 million relief bill, Herbert Hoover showed how acute that crisis had become...
...Republicans, the information was encouraging. But it scarcely changed their plans as the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Colorado's Eugene Millikin, this week set to work on the House tax bill. The 1948 budget, they figured, could safely be cut by $5¼ billion, no more. Next year's revenues were expected to run $2½ to $3 billion over former estimates. Allowing $1 billion for foreign commitments, $2 billion for debt reduction, taxes could safely be reduced by about $3 billion and still leave a comfortable cushion of cash against a possible recession or other eventualities...
Last week, Churchill's summons had a response in the U.S. Eighty-one Americans, including Historian James Truslow Adams, John W. Davis, Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Senator Carl A. Hatch, and General Electric's Philip D. Reed, called for U.S. support for a U.S.E. Their declaration, assembled by handsome, black-haired, internationalist Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (son of an Austrian father and a Japanese mother), said: "The alternative ... is a Continent permanently divided . . . by an artificial and arbitrary line of barbed wire...