Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed into law 121 bills passed by Congress, among them the $887 million aid-to-education program, a $42 million excise tax cut, the debt limit hike to $288 billion, a 1½-year extension to the farm surplus program that has already disposed of $4 billion worth of crops...
...kind of U.S. that the Democrats were dreaming about just a year ago could hardly have voted any other way than Democratic in the 1958 elections. It was a U.S. of recession, rising unemployment, farm poverty, militant unionism, weakened defenses-with executive decisions dominated by Congress and civil rights questions compromised smoothly in the Lyndon Johnson manner. But the big news of politics as the fall campaign opens is that the U.S. of autumn 1958 is not quite the land of Democratic dreams. Items...
...skill, but far from blindly. Once, when Milton was uninhibitedly polishing a presidential speech, Ike took one look and said, gently but firmly: "That's fine. But it's not what I want to say." Again, Milton strongly objected to a pork-barreling rider attached by Congress to the $32 billion defense-appropriations bill in 1955. As a matter of constitutional principle, he advised Ike to veto the bill and "tell Congress to go to hell." But Ike, unlike Milton, has the responsibility of elective office, and he realized that the virtues of the whole bill outweighed...
...spacemen of the world met in Amsterdam last week for the ninth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, they were the most sought-after scientists on earth. They obliged by plotting dozens of ways to leave it. Items...
...rise was steady. He became assistant treasurer, general assistant treasurer and, in 1941, at 38, one of G.M.'s youngest vice presidents. As such he supervised the corporation's financial affairs, chairmaned some of its most important committees. When Curtice went to Washington to testify before Congress, Donner, well supplied with figures and reports, was usually sitting quietly at his side...