Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress reconvened this week, in answer to Harry Truman's summons. Facing his ex-colleagues, the President then asked for the most sweeping controls over the U.S. economy which had ever been demanded by a President in peacetime. Congressmen, who had returned to Washington with their minds on the European Recovery Program-which most favored-could hardly believe what they heard...
...President walked down the aisle of the House, there was no inkling of the shockers he had in store. For 15 minutes, as he talked about ERP, Congressmen listened with calm attentiveness, applauded politely at intervals...
...Congressmen had stopped applauding; most sat in stony silence. Senator Bob Taft clamped his jaws until the muscles bulged. Even if G.O.P. congressmen could bring themselves to accept Harry Truman's first two methods of attack, they could never agree to his third. Despite his avowed opposition to all controls as the methods of a police state (TIME, Oct. 27), the President now wanted power...
President Truman asked the special session of Congress only for interim aid to Europe. He does not expect to present the "Marshall Plan" until the regular session convenes in January. Most Congressmen will probably go along with the President in matters relating to foreign aid. The necessity for such aid is generally conceded and the only argument is likely to be over ways and means for financing and administering...
...President went further, He made the very logical connection between European aid and inflation, and, taking his political future in his hand, asked that measures be taken to curb runaway prices. Price control or allocation have never been popular in this country, particularly with Congressmen. Left to itself, the legislature would be most reluctant even to consider such an issue. By the very nature of its composition a Congress made up of locally elected individuals has little to gain and much to lose by raising controversial problems. Any effective solution is going to antagonize a sizeable group of voters...