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...graduate students in the upper half of their senior class at college will be exempt from service so that they should be able to complete their education before going into service...
This week the Senate finally got down to business on controls, but it was mostly monkey business. Virtually everyone with a homegrown industry or crop to protect hung an amendment on the bill exempting his pet. Said Delaware's John Williams: "Everyone will be exempt from this bill but the consumers." Such as it was, the Senate passed the bill (84-3). A House and Senate conference would have to straighten...
...strengthen it. The House agreed to make price controls mandatory if the cost-of-living index went up 5% above the level of June 15 (food prices had already gone up 2% to 3%); the White House shuddered at such a notion. Other amendments got in the bill: to exempt radio, television, periodicals and insurance underwriters from price control; to chop out a provision for controlling commodity speculation. The real-estate lobby failed by only two votes to exempt real-estate credits from control...
...Washington last week, after hearing from the National Gallery, the House passed H.J.Res.497. When the Senate concurs and Harry Truman adds his signature, foreign-owned works of art on loan to the National (or to other galleries approved by the National) will be exempt from U.S. death taxes. And the cream of the Gulbenkian collection will go on view this fall for at least two years...
...Sullivan Bill," was designed to "prevent the teaching of atheistic communism and safeguard the ideals of American Education." To do this, the author, Ralph W. Sullivan of Boston, urged that any institution found by the Commissioner of Education to harbor communists on its faculty be deprived of its tax exempt status. His bill was defeated after several changes in form, but others like it have since been dropped in the General Court hopper...