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...Admit It." Any one of those measures would run into varying Republican opposition. The reaction of Republican Congressmen to the special session call was mixed. Only a few hours before the call, Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had declared that Congress would limit aid to Europe even under the Marshall Plan to $1 billion next year. Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year. Said Knutson: "Give them a paddle and then tell 'em-'Go paddle your own canoe...
...Republican campaign for an income-tax cut, noisily led by Minnesota's Harold Knutson (who insisted that taxes should be the No. 1 business at the special session), got unexpected support last week from a distinguished scholar. Speaking in Boston, Harvard's President James B. Conant reminded the U.S. people that taxes are a powerful tool in shaping the U.S. social and political structure...
...Minnesota's Harold Knutson tried to fulfill one GOP campaign promise by plugging a bill...
...stalled. It was stalled because of reports from the U.S. Congress. Largely due to the influence of Arthur Vandenberg late last winter, Congress had let the State Department go ahead with its reciprocal trade program. But even as Clayton arrived in Washington, Minnesota's irreconcilable Isolationist Harold Knutson warned: Congress will promptly raise any tariff the State Department lowers if it damages "a vital industry." As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Knutson set up a subcommittee* to keep the watch on the tariff wall...
Speed-Up. Despite Citizen Washburn's opinion, Congress had its busiest week to date. The House passed Harold Knutson's tax reduction bill, thus immeasurably speeding up a final determination of the tax question. It also shouted through a cut-rate Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, over attempts to scuttle the U.S. Conciliation Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NLRB. The House joined the Senate in extending a modified Second War Powers Act until June 30, ending Selective Service, and appropriating $9,000,000 to help Mexico fight its foot-&-mouth disease epidemic...