Word: congress
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Before the elections began, a resolution condemning the suppression of leftist groups and activities in American colleges was overwhelmingly passed. Another resolution calling on the president and Congress to urge a convention to discuss establishment of a federal world government was defeated by a close vote...
...65th birthday party Harry Truman looked and acted like a man who had few qualms about the future. Congress was acting up again (see The Congress) and he still had four tough years ahead in the White House. But at 65, the President seemed to be in better shape than when he took office four years ago. "The President," proclaimed the White House physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, "is as close to being an iron man as anyone I know...
...Truman did not think much of such a proposition. But the House strategy was up to Sam, Harry Truman added. Labor leaders also gagged at the idea of accepting the hated injunction. Nevertheless, they quietly passed the word to their friends in Congress to support Sam's substitute. They were even ready to accept the injunction if they could get rid of most of the Taft-Hartley Act. That is, the majority of them were. John Lewis, who had had to pay through the nose for defying injunctions, was dead set against any compromise...
After a month of rummaging through statistics, Federal Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods was ready to explain what he thought Congress had in mind for the nation's tenants and landlords. To assure landlords a "fair net operating income" under the new rent-control law, said Woods, his area rent offices will take a look at the books of every house and apartment owner who feels that he should get more rent. Their requests will be screened through a new formula...
...upward of $10,000 a year, plus the legendary right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer and journalist (FORTUNE, 1930-38) to Librarian of Congress (1939-44), Assistant Secretary of State (1944-45) and deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO's first general conference (1946). Though he was not telling what he intends to teach, it seemed a sure bet that he would take on English A5, the traditional Boylston course...