Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force watched each flight proudly-both planes had been ordered east to take part in a big, private air show for Congress this week, calculated to soften the hearts of members who are considering the Air Force Budget...
...Administration, which has been firing away merrily at the 80th Congress' labor policy ever since election day, finally met the heavy hitters in the opposition lineup when it took its campaign promises into committee a fortnight ago. The hearings have generated a great deal of heat in dispute over the two encyclopedia labor laws enacted in the past. But there are only two questions now completely adaptable to regulation on a national scale: The security of "national emergency" industries and the closed shop...
...secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing to do with a dispute in another plant or industry. One thing is clear: if Congress presumes to handle the secondary boycott in a new law, it must define more closely who are the legitimate participants of a bona fide labor dispute...
These relatively minor points-minor compared with the national welfare strikes and closed shop-illustrate the mess that Congress must untangle in the months ahead. The primary need is for action on the big points, and the sooner the pressure groups and politicians stop name-calling and realize that the best they can hope for is a direction of policy towards compromise, the sooner a workable law will be enacted...
Last week the Displaced Persons Commission reported that the 80th Congress' Wiley-Revercomb law was just what Harry Truman had called it-"a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice." The law, the commission declared, was "all but unworkable." Because of its restrictions, only 2,499 had been admitted in the first six months of its operation (it was scheduled to admit 205,000 in two years). The law excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics who fled from postwar pogroms and Communist coups. As written, the law also required job assurance for adolescents...