Word: congress
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Harry Truman had called the 80th Congress' D.P. Act "a pattern of discrimination and intolerance." The D.P. Commission had declared it "all but unworkable," because it excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics. In nine months of operation, only 34,569 had been admitted out of a two-year quota of 205,000. Last week an Administration bill to admit 339,000 D.P.s in the next two years under more generous provisions reached the floor of the House...
...Senate: ¶ Received a report from its Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approving the North Atlantic Treaty. The report stipulated (at the insistence of Georgia's Walter George) that the pact give the U.S. President no new powers to send troops into combat without consent of Congress...
...repudiation of military control of the atom has been one of the most important principles behind the AEC. Congress there years ago stated this in its legislation setting up the Commission; Secretary of Defense Johnson this week stated in the strongest of terms that he neither wanted nor would brook military control. Hickenlooper would impose military security procedures on the AEC--procedures which, if applied now, would discourage many scientists from working on the atom...
...headlines for two years. "We aim to bring together in small compass and in simple language all the arguments pro and con, together with other possible solutions and the historical background of the major bills so that they may be kept for ready reference as they are discussed in Congress...
Pray for Grace. Both the CCC and most farmers had been counting on Congress to authorize emergency storage. But it appeared that the 81st Congress, like its predecessor, would not do anything in time to be of much help. The House had passed a conference bill which would let the CCC build more storage facilities, but last week the Senate turned it down, ostensibly on a technicality. (Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas charged it was torpedoed by private grain storage interests...