Word: congress
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...week long, the candelabra and chilled-wine circuit hummed with hostesses plotting and providing. Mostly it was the embassies that entertained the visitors; being conscious of the high importance of congressional favor, they also invited key Senators. Robert Taft's attempt to cut EGA authorizations (see The Congress) set off Senate debates which lasted until 11 p.m., and spoiled dinners all along Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row. Many a hostess who invited a Senator had to settle for just his wife...
...Republican 80th Congress, Jenner and his fellow isolationists had felt duty-bound to tone down their opposition to party-and bipartisan-policy. With the Democrats back in control, their coats were...
...even Louis Johnson knew that he could get no real unification without some law-changing by Congress. At week's end, as a starter, the President signed a bill creating a $10,000 post, Under Secretary of Defense, for his chief administrative assistant. But armed-services committees in both houses of Congress and their gold-braided pals in the armed forces were still balking at bills which would make the Secretary of Defense the absolute boss of the services as well as their titular head...
...accepted the compromises as the best it could get. But what was safe enough for the rest of the country was not safe enough for the Congressmen themselves. Taking no chances, the House passed a rent-control bill for the District of Columbia (where about half the members of Congress are tenants), freezing rent ceilings for the next 15 months, retaining controls on hotel apartments, and allowing no second guessing by local boards...
...agreement was full of ifs & buts, and it still had to be approved by the U.S. Congress and the other nations. But, in principle, it would provide a steady, four-year market for a maximum of 456 million bushels of wheat a year for five major wheat exporters-the U.S., Canada, Australia, France and Uruguay. It would permit 37 importing nations to buy at a price of $1.50 to $1.80 a bu. for No. 1 Manitoba wheat at Ontario ports the first year, and as low as $1.20 a bu. in the fourth year. (This rate would allow a maximum...