Word: congress
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...hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade Commission wants a single, standard test for all filters. Meanwhile, for what the public, the companies, the U.S. Congress thinks, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Those Cigarette Claims...
Last week LeRoy Collins again struck a statesmanlike pose, called for "bold, creative, constructive leadership"-and brought forth a scheme for nullifying the rule of law on civil rights issues. Collins urged the U.S. Congress, in its closing hours, to pass a "moratorium" law, forbidding U.S. courts to issue desegregation orders for the next six months. Collins could well afford to spend his time advising on national civil rights policy. He has no desegregation problem at home; there is not the slightest possibility that a Negro child will attend school with whites in Florida this year...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson moved for adjournment; Vice President Nixon, presiding, brought down his gavel-and the jangling of the Senate call bells noisily marked the end of the 85th Congress. But before the bells clanged, there had been the usual maddening, last-minute fumbling blocks. Nevada's neolithic "Molly" Malone numbed Senate floor and galleries with a wandering diatribe against foreign aid that included lengthy quotations from George Washington, Karl Marx, Andrew Jackson and Molly Malone ("The Nevada air corps can lick any European nation"). While an early-finishing House sang Home on the Range, Wisconsin...
Finally, thankfully. Congress reached the last major order of business. Sent to the White House after closing night: a keystone bill providing $3,298,092,500 for foreign aid and mutual security. The final total was $220 million more than the House wanted, $220 million less than the Senate had previously voted, and $652 million below the total that President Eisenhower originally requested...
...even the most optimistic of the Unity House conferees could really believe that such measures, alone, would do the job. Obviously needed to help the honest, bona fide leaders of big labor was corrective labor legislation-and that, in the most dismal failure of 1958, was precisely what the Congress of the U.S. had refused to approve...