Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the military's requests for a radar screen and a guided missile range have passed both Houses of Congress...
...addition to Harry Truman's record peacetime budget of $41.9 billion, there is a shadow budget of at least $11 billion more which Congress will be asked to approve, mostly as authorizations for Fair Deal measures. The eleven extra billion are really only a starter: some of the spending plans call for a small beginning but would commit the Government to huge new annual expenditures...
...York Times. "We know that the people of the 48 states do not know what the people of Hawaii are up against," said the ads. "And we can't seem to find anyone in America that gives a damn. Isn't there someone in the Congress of the United States or in high official position who will help...
Ever since his rise to power, President Juan D. Perón has been taking potshots at Buenos Aires' independent La Prensa. Last week he fired a broadside. "For a hundred years, "the President told a railway union congress, "La Prensa has pontificated with endless lies and imbecilities...
...F.D.R. Jr. was sent to Congress from a New York City district...