Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed the instrument of ratification this week, President Harry Truman declared: "This treaty is a historic step toward a world of peace . . . but it is only one step." One hour later, he submitted the next step to Congress. He asked for $1,450,000,000 military aid to the U.S.'s friends (see INTERNATIONAL...
This week, after costing taxpayers $3,700,000,000, the 52-20 club lost its charter. Harry Truman and many governors-who did not want to dip into their state's own unemployment compensation funds-wanted 52-20 continued. But Congress failed to act before the law expired...
...brunt of any attack from the East, must have the appropriate priorities. He also believes that Western Union's land-defense program must eventually be fitted into a larger plan for all the Atlantic pact signatories. Not much can be done with this larger plan until the U.S. Congress decides how much (if any) arms aid it is willing to give to Western Europe...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress Party had fared badly in the South Calcutta by-election last month, and Calcutta's Communist hoodlums had been increasingly cocky ever since. Last week, Nehru flew into Calcutta to see for himself how dangerous the city's Communists really were...
...biggest salute to the army was wrapped up in the annual budget which the President had just submitted to Congress. The allotment for the armed forces, whose 100,000-odd personnel are South America's best-trained, was a record 1,663,000,000 pesos (about $333 million), more than a fourth of the budget. Since there was no sign of a military threat against Argentina, and since Perón himself disavowed imperialism, what was the money for? Bigger & better parades...