Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Few Words. As speakers went into action, the President's temper began to tug at its moorings; the evening was devoted to frequent criticism of his Administration, particularly in its operations in the fields of labor and taxation. When he was asked-three hours after his arrival -to...
Last week the President also: <| Nominated two prominent Democratic job-hunters to $15,000-a-year jobs: Washington's former Governor Mon C. Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade...
Better Sense. In spite of imposing Democratic majorities, Harry Truman commanded no stable following in either House. Politically, Congress was considerably more conservative than the President. His leadership was frequently overturned on critical issues by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats, an unstable alliance which provided no consistent leadership...
On five basic commodities-wheat, corn, rice, cotton, peanuts-the bill extended the present 90% parity support through another year. This would fall to 80% in 1951, to 75% the following year. But in either year the Secretary of Agriculture could set support prices above these figures at his own...
There was no further scoring in the quarter. Hyde recovered a Holy Cross fumble on the opposition's 27 but the visitors took over on downs, were forced to kick, and the Crimson moved from its own 20 to the Purple 40 as the period ended.