Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party bosses from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said he: "For me, it'll mean either...
...longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary custom or contract")-they had opened a trap door under thousands of business firms. Congress had to rush to the rescue with legislation...
Fred Vinson, third of the Kentucky-born justices, an authority on taxes when he served in Congress, a troubleshooter...
...court merely nibbled around the edges of the big, still unresolved questions, leaving it to time and changing customs to determine the ultimate shape of things. The nibbling was deliberate, and not the result of timidity. Rebuking by implication their immediate predecessors, the present justices insisted that it was Congress' job to legislate, not the court...
...juridical tortoise sometimes tried to prod the hare awake. It hinted that Congress might liberalize some of its laws. It would not stand in the way of legislation leading toward the welfare state...