Word: bipartisanism
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...hearings go, it lacked excitement; there was no crowd, not many reporters, never a harsh word between witnesses and inquiring Congressmen. But the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preparing a report on the ratification of the peace treaty with Japan and supplementary Pacific defense alliances, gave an uncommon show of bipartisan agreement over a problem in Asia...
...good feeling: "I would like to say to [Dulles and Acheson] that I have listened to each of your presentations . . . with a great deal of pride and satisfaction that I am an American . . ." The Democrats' John Sparkman chimed in: "This has been one of the finest demonstrations of bipartisan cooperation . . ." The Democrats' Walter George complimented Dulles again ("one of the finest accomplishments") and MacArthur again ("fine record...
...Pushed through 78 bills to streamline the state government. CJ Reorganized the political State Commerce Commission, the utility rate setting agency, to make it bipartisan...
...about $71 billion. The probable deficit for the period will be about $14.4 billion, to bring the total public debt to some $275 billion. Truman mildly asked Congress to vote him the $5 billion which Congress chopped off his tax request in the last session (and got a bipartisan, election-year roar of rejection from Capitol Hill). Then, as if he did not really expect new taxes, he took comfort from the theory that an ever-expanding economy will more than compensate for mounting deficits...
Signed by CBS and Westinghouse Electric Corp.: one of the biggest contracts in television's program history. Subject: the presidential campaign. Westinghouse's show: at least 20 hours' coverage each of the Republican and Democratic conventions; a 13-week, bipartisan, "get-out-the-vote" campaign; election-night results, to continue "until the decisive trend has been established." Cost to Westinghouse...