Word: congress
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Believe it or not, in 1941 it was F.D.R. who said: "The Government of the United States will not order nor will Congress pass legislation ordering a closed shop . . . That would be too much like the Hitler method toward labor...
Only a month after the congressional elections that some pundits called a landslide for liberal spenders and a month before the President's budget message goes to Congress-a key congressional Democrat and a key Administration moneyman laid down similar, tough arguments against a spending spree...
...which meant that the North was in complete control of the Democratic Party-except in the U.S. Congress, where senior Southerners predominate among committee chairmen, and only until 1960, when Democratic presidential candidates will start courting Southern delegates for convention votes...
...John Llewellyn Lewis still has a thick, flowing mane and a fearsome roar. He no longer bares his claws at Presidents, Congress and the federal courts; six years have passed since he last called his United Mine Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard...
...foreign-trade policy, Kearns called for "a single agency within the Federal Government responsible for coordinating all efforts to promote private investment abroad," then blandly quoted two businessmen who had suggested this job for Commerce. Scattered through Kearns's lengthy prepared statement were yard-wide hints that Congress would do well to beef up Commerce's role in foreign economic policy. Sample: "Those responsible for developing an interest in foreign investment abroad, such as the Department of Commerce, should have a voice in the foreign lending policies of the public agencies...