Word: congress
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...ceiling bill. Neither of the measures follow the administration's original plans. The great gap between supply and demand in available housing means that just how far these bills are modified during the next few days will probably affect the national economy as much as any other legislation facing Congress this year...
...powerful real-estate lobby in Congress is doing its best to emasculate these controls. The real-estate men are claiming that the ceilings have made building unprofitable and are therefore prolonging the housing shortage, that rent controls are making it impossible for landlords to get a "fair return" on their money...
...increasd rents--an estimated 600,000 people in New York City alone--strict controls are necessary to keep overwhelming demand from pushing rents high out of reach. The original Federal controls are just good enough for the job; the comparative present stability of rents shows this. If Congress weakens these controls, it will benefit nobody but the men who have so far terribly failed to cure the housing shortage on their...
...dean of the Texas House of Representatives, El Paso's ex-judge Samuel Jackson Isaacks, suggested it. He offered a bill which, he promised, would "deter Congress from stepping into a state responsibility, in which they have no more business than they do in cases of rape, burglary or traffic violations." The bill provided a penalty for lynch mobsters of from five years' imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually...
Peacetime aid toward the rearmament of the Atlantic Pact nations is not included in the pact's terms, but such aid will go forth as part of the same moral bundle. The Administration bill aimed at Congress includes Greece, Turkey and some Latin American states, as well as the Atlantic nations. Estimated overall cost to the U.S. (in addition to Marshall Plan economic aid): $1.5 to $2 billion. The cost-and the risk-of the pact was more than balanced by the feeling of Western cohesion, the assurance that peace of the Atlantic community was indivisible...