Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Follette-Monroney suggestions do not extend to abolition of seniority rule of the Senatorial filibuster, because it was felt that an attack on these institutions would kill whatever chance of Congressional acceptance he reform proposals night have. The report, however, does advocate another hotly, debated innovation--creation of a legislative-executive cabinet. Sitting in this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative...
...danger of runaway inflation, they said to an anxious and puzzled nation, would be over by June 1947. Meanwhile, all that was needed was a little more reconversion patchwork. They got help from some Congressmen. The House will begin consideration of a bill to extend Paul Porter's OPA for another year, and authorize $2 billion for consumer subsidies. The Senate gave Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt $600 million to pass out in premiums for building materials...
...House seemed to agree with Senator Johnson. When its bill to extend the draft for nine months reached the floor, members fell to clubbing it with amendments. Two blows were enough to reduce it to imbecility: 1) an amendment raising the draft age from 18 to 20; 2) an amendment to suspend all inductions between...
Since Government and Communists had agreed to extend their uneasy truce to the northeast, the fighting at Kaiyuan seemed ominous. Chungking reported that disagreement on "fundamentals" had delayed the flight of Government-Communist-U.S. truce teams into the trouble zones. Mukden, where U.S. truce officers had arrived, was a prime exhibit in the Manchurian mixup. Items...
Because of a three week discrepancy in commencement dates, a renewal of the Crimson-Eli competition had seemed impossible this year until William J. Bingham '16, University athletic director, matched a similar gesture by the Yale football team by offering to extend the Crimson crew season through exam period...