Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which high court of law has gone over the heads of the President and the Congress and decided that the U.S. is officially at war in Viet Nam? See THE LAW, What...
...unions. He plans to start taxing unused land on Uruguay's huge ranches and to attract new capital with a stable peso. He also threatens to fire unnecessary bureaucrats, but in Uruguay no step involving jobs is quite that easy. There is, however, a measure before Congress that would give superfluous federal employees a year's salary just to quit...
...please, said Edmund Burke, is no more possible than to love and be wise. That aphorism applied in the U.S. last week as the 10% federal income tax surcharge went into effect after months of acrimony between the President and Congress. It had long been widely acknowledged that a tax increase was necessary to stifle inflation. The White House excepted, agreement was fairly general that a sizable cutback in government spending was also in order. A $6 billion cut was the congressional price for the tax bill, and both came to pass. The question last week was whether the combination...
...signed the surtax bill, "than the cruel and haphazard tax of rising prices and spiraling interest rates." Most concerned about how the tax-and-spending package emerged are the President's economic advisers. What they originally proposed was a tax surcharge only; for them, the spending downhold that Congress insisted on came as a jolt. The combination seemed like a jet pilot applying full flaps at the same time he throttles back. What worries the Council of Economic Advisers is, first, whether the mixture will slow the economy too abruptly, and second, whether there is reserve power...
...Fort Polk, La., in November 1964. Anderson turned himself in on February 10, 1967, and was eventually found guilty of "unauthorized absence." But under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the statute of limitations for prosecution of an unauthorized absence is two years-except "in time of war." Congress, said Anderson's lawyers, has yet to declare war. The peacetime statute of limitations had run out before their client was tried. Therefore he should be freed...