Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly a political issue and because he had called the session without a by-your-leave, Republicans felt free to declare the session wide open. One of the first issues many of them wanted to take up was tax reduction, which the President had twice vetoed. Said House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "Tax reduction ... is urgently needed if we are to have increased production...
...Truman faces one initial obstacle that may well wreck his plans--a legislature dominated by the opposition party. By virtue of this fact he will be barred from using some of the most effective weapons in the Presidential arsenal--patronage, personal friendships with Congressional leaders, and the weight of his position as spokesman for a majority party. Presidential leadership will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below...
Sport 26. Famed not only as a band leader, but as the defending champion in speedboat races this summer...
...producing more. Government statistics told the story. Since 1943 employment had risen 15.9%, wages 121%; but man hours worked had gone up only 8%. Production on farm & factory was down, dollars were scarce, the official cost of living had increased 83%. Perón was the labor leader of Argentina; he had dumped the men who had organized the demonstrations two years ago, installed stooges to head labor unions. But three big strikes had been called, against his wishes, in the past three months...
...convalescent gridiron leader who will never play the game again accented "clean living" in his address from a wheelchair-stretcher at the First Corps Cadets Armory's Community Fund "Youth Serenade...