Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change labor's hard-won basic rights. Today's miner, at $24.25 per diem, could hardly be called downtrodden. (Nor could John L. Lewis, still the $50,000-per-year U.M.W. president and a power in the National Bank of Washington as well.) The concern of Congress and of the U.S. in 1959 is the gangsterism and brutality that infest the unions and threaten the working man. With oratory and belligerence out of the past, John L. Lewis was fighting for a cause already won, defending a crime against labor still unpunished...
AMID the swift social changes and sudden international crises of the mid-20th century, the impatient and the doctrinaire often complain that Congress - slow-moving, operating through committees and compromises -is an awkward antique, a hindrance to national efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with...
...real trouble with Congress, says Burnham, is that it is too weak. There is a danger that it will be reduced to a ceremonial rubber stamp, as the Roman Senate was under the Caesars. If that happens, he warns, the U.S. will lose a solid bulwark of liberty...
...founding fathers, says Burnham, thought of Congress as the predominant power in the new government. But changes during the past few decades have made Congress "a mere junior partner." Items...
...Congress' exclusive constitutional power to declare war has been so eroded that President Truman could involve the U.S. in the Korean war without asking Congress' consent...