Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With many an oratorical sigh, Congress took a parting look at the historic chambers it had occupied for nearly one hundred years. From both sides of the aisle came a flurry of windy evocations of the past. Then workmen moved in under the unsightly steel girders which had been supporting the sagging House and Senate roofs since 1940. While a complete $5,000,000 refurbishing went on-from new steel & concrete roofs to television and radio outlets-the House took up a temporary stand across the street in the new House Office Building. The Senate moved back...
...81st Congress was six months old. No one had yet put his brand marks on it, though several had tried. In the first glow of the session it was hopefully hailed as a Fair Deal Congress, but that was obviously a misnomer. Then when Republicans and Southern Democrats ganged up to kill Harry Truman's civil rights program, an angry C.I.O. official said that Congress was run by the "Dixiegop." That was also too pat. It hardly fitted last week's news, in which the Fair Deal won a big victory in one house and lost...
...fact was that, except for foreign policy, the 81st Congress was proving to be one of the most unmanaged & unmanageable Congesses in recent times. No one man, no one group ran the show-neither the Fair Dealers, the Southern diehards, Taft's moderate Republicans, nor Kenneth Wherry's Midwestern tories, nor any permanent coalition of them...
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...Foreign Ministers conference the Russians staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet Zone, the results of which...