Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said he: "For me, it'll mean either a palace or a backhouse...
...inconspicuous seat on the Democratic side, dutifully boned up on House procedure, and whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of his age could match. His own major problem, it now seemed, would be how to deserve all that might be thrust...
...world's woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
...court had not rushed in to grapple with any great constitutional problems. One of the justices called its course a policy of "self-denial." In the twelve years, only two congressional measures-neither of them major-had been declared unconstitutional. The court merely nibbled around the edges of the big, still unresolved questions, leaving it to time and changing customs to determine the ultimate shape of things. The nibbling was deliberate, and not the result of timidity. Rebuking by implication their immediate predecessors, the present justices insisted that it was Congress' job to legislate, not the court...
...Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile, at least, both the Northwest and Szechuan would be valiantly...