Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more striking coming from the man who, as Senator, had done so much to steer Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal through Congress, had been rewarded with Supreme Court robes and a Cabinet...
Among important positions which he held were an appointment to the International Commission on Nomenclature of Plants, Vice-President of the Section of Nomenclature of the International Botanical Congress--to be held in Stock-holm in 1950--and a membership in the British Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...people were killed, the election went off with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between inviting the Liberals back into his cabinet or asking the army men to accompany him the rest of the way along the edge of his political...
Everyone knew that there had been a bumper crop of wartime and postwar babies in the U.S., but no one seemed to be doing anything about their future schooling. Last week Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, warned Congress that the babies, grown to moppet's estate, were about to swamp the U.S. school system with 1,000,000 extra schoolkids a year: what the country direly needs, said Oscar Ewing, is some 30,000 extra classrooms. Ewing's estimate of the minimum needed for new school construction in the next ten years: between...
...last week Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan suddenly changed the rules-and drove the shorts to buying to cover their contracts. Brannan had been begging Congress to give him the power to buy or build additional storage facilities. When Congress finally passed such a bill last week, Brannan acted fast. He not only used the powers Congress had just given him, but dusted off some old ones-which he had had all the time-to give the farmers a lot more...