Word: enact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment the bill was opened to amendments from the floor, Georgia's John Stephens Wood was on his feet. He offered an "amendment" which was actually an entire bill. Congressman Wood's proposal would, in effect, re-enact the Taft-Hartley Act. The fight promptly became: Lesinski bill v. Wood bill...
With disarming casualness, President Truman sent up to Capitol Hill one day last week what was potentially one of the hottest political and economic issues Congress has ever had to handle. The President asked Congress to enact a compulsory health-insurance program for most U.S. citizens. Said the President in a special message: "To see that our people actually enjoy the good health that medical science knows how to provide is one of the great challenges to our democracy...
...National Student Association has urged Congress to enact legislation which would provide for about 300,000 federally financed scholarships for college students in a civilian "G.I. Bill...
Harry Truman thought that the country, in electing him, had given Congress a mandate to enact his program. Last week's events demonstrated that he had another think coming; a good many Congressmen, who represented historic regional interests and prejudices, and a common fear of the extremes in Harry Truman's campaign promises, disagreed. They thought that they also had a "mandate" from the voters (some of them had gotten more votes than Harry Truman in their areas). "The accomplishments of this Congress," said Ohio's Robert Taft, "will not be zero, though they will look like...
Ralph Budd had come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...