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Adjournment was in the air and Congressmen were itching to get back home for some electioneering. Impatient and brisk as a commuter trying to make a train, the Senate bundled a lot of legislation into a drawer and pushed it out of sight. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry looked at Majority Floor Leader Scott Lucas' list of 22 "must" bills, and agreed to cooperate if it was whittled down to six: expansion of social security, extension of the draft and MAP, the omnibus $29 billion appropriation bill, a bill cutting excise taxes, and a final attempt to pass FEPC...
...cowboy jeans and cowboy shirts, paddled off, leaving their pals to watch the shoes, socks and fur-lined jackets which they had left on shore. They had one good oar, a broken oar and a piece of a board. In almost no time at all, carried by the brisk wind, they were out of shouting distance of the beach...
Even the normally cordial Key West, Fla. weather seemed to be handing Harry Truman his hat and hinting that it was time to pack up and go. Heavy winds howled in off the gulf one day last week; the swim was canceled, and so was the brisk morning walk. The President bundled up in his sweater and stayed indoors...
Department of State was made easier by the work of brisk, friendly Argentine Treasury Minister Ramon Cereijo, who came to Washington a month ago for the purpose...
...boosts. But both business and labor had to think twice about any precipitous price boosts; they had the example of the coal industry before them. After the wage increases last month, some high-cost mines closed, and 3,000 miners were laid off in Pennsylvania alone. But nationally, a brisk upswing in jobs more than made up for such local soft spots; in March, the Census Bureau reported, employment jumped 598,000 to 57,551,000, trimming unemployment...