Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
While the steelworkers met in Pittsburgh to authorize a strike, the President put on the squeeze. In identical wires to the six major steel companies, he proposed a board of inquiry which would make recommendations on settling the dispute. U.S. Steel Corp.'s stiff-necked Ben Fairless turned it down flat. The Taft-Hartley Act, he pointed out, "is still the law of the land," and it expressly states that a fact-finding board shall be forbidden to make recommendations. The other steelmen took the same line...
...Major General Herman Feldman, 59, who joined the Army as a private 42 years ago and climbed to the post of Quartermaster General, in charge of $1.8 billion a year in Army spending. Feldman was suspended, said Army Secretary Gordon Gray, because of indications that he "furnished a contractor's representative procurement information under circumstances which appear irregular...
...Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, whose 31-year Army career had led to command of the Chemical Corps. Gray said Waitt was suspended on suspicion that he "improperly furnished personnel data" to a civilian...
...Died. Major General Vernon E. Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death; on the Potomac River, Washington...