Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans who are at present in Congress [TIME, March 21] underestimate the intelligence of the U.S. people. The unnatural marriage of Southern Democrats and Republicans is one to make any right-thinking American nauseated...
Back at work and glowing with good will, Harry Truman wanted the balky members of the 81st Congress to know he was ready to talk things over at any time. To make sure he would be there to greet all callers, he canceled his four out-of-town dates for April-a speech at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this...
...bill giving President Truman broad powers to revamp the government, but making it easier for Congress to nullify his reorganization plans, was approved yesterday by a Senate Committee. Truman had asked reorganization powers and his request was supported by former president Herbert Hoover whose commission on reorganization submitted its last report yesterday...
This week, after a fortnight in the Florida sun, he was back in Washington to try out his new good-neighbor policy at firsthand. Any break between the President and Congress, he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was mainly in the imagination of "troublemakers" who "start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard." If anyone wanted to junk the Fair Deal, it was the pressure groups, and the worst of them all, he said, was the real-estate lobby, "the real enemy of the American home...
...Harry Truman insisted, "basically the Congress and the President are working together and will continue to work together for the good of the country. We are going to agree on a lot more things than we disagree on. And when the final score for this Congress is added up, some of the selfish pressure groups are going to be pretty badly disappointed...