Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chart of atoms at work; particles were constantly breaking off from one nucleus to join another. Judging by the first six months, the 81st was proving footloose and independent-minded. The independence made it irritatingly slow at times; it also made for the kind of middle-of-the-road Congress which would never fully satisfy the Truman Fair Dealers, or satisfy the conservatives either, but would nevertheless leave behind it some solid achievements...
...CONGRESS Second Serving
Justice Robert H. Jackson could hardly contain himself in his dissent from Justice Frank Murphy's majority opinion. The court was trying to change Congress' own rules, he said. For more than 150 years it has been standard congressional practice to presume a quorum until someone specifically raised the question and proved otherwise (as no one did in the Christoffel case). Murphy's decision, said Jackson, challenged the validity of thousands of congressional bills which have been passed without a record vote-hence without actual proof that a quorum was on hand...
Pennsylvania's Congressman Francis Walter promptly began drafting a bill to provide what had always been assumed before: that Congress can run its business the way it pleases. Supreme Court decisions, groused Walter, echoing a former justice, are getting to be "like excursion tickets-good for one day only...
...Communist Party and the party-line Civil Rights Congress went to their rescue with rallies, demonstrations and screaming Daily Worker headlines calling it "a northern Scottsboro case." Non-Communist liberal groups joined in, and the case was carried to New Jersey's highest court...