Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even with skimping, and shoving big purchases off into the post-strike future, many strikers are running into debt. Steelworker John Novasich had some savings piled up when the strike started, but now he is a month behind on his mortgage payments, has yet to pay the doctor bill for the operation his wife underwent last June, and is wondering how he can scratch the $160 he still owes on his son's tuition at Youngstown University...
...truly amazing performance he put on. Relegated by the experts to the role of a lame duck at the beginning of the year, he was acclaimed for his leadership at the end. Aside from a minor defeat on his second veto of the Pork Barrel Bill, the only setback to his energetic leadership was the Senate's rejection of Admiral Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. Indeed, so successful was his defense of a balanced budget, that several Democrats vied with Republicans for the dubious honor of credit for appropriating less than Eisenhower requested...
...coalition. The Democratic leadership found its problem in controlling the Southerners rather than the ineffective liberals. Judge Howard Smith of Virginia retained his arbitrary direction of the House Rules Committee despite Rayburn's pledge to control him. And Johnson was unable to keep his promise of a civil rights bill...
...composition of the Senate has not altered, Williams pointed out, and in order for the repeal bill to succeed, some of the forty-nine Senators who voted for recommittal would have to change their minds. Williams, who voted against recommittal and strongly supported the Kennedy-Clark measure, thinks that such change is very unlikely...
According to Williams, the key man in the NDEA loyalty issue is Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D, Tex.), who voted for recommittal. If Johnson decides to back the repeal measure, perhaps in an attempt to gain Northern liberal support for a possible Presidential bid, the bill's prospects will improve considerably...