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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th Congress has overridden six Truman vetoes. Andrew Johnson was overridden 15 times in his one term, Franklin D. Roosevelt nine times in four terms...
...Supreme Court closed its term this week, it refused (over the protests of four Justices) to rule on the constitutionality of one hotly argued provision of the Taft-Hartley law. The law, said Justice Stanley Reed, did not specifically prohibit political opinions in union newspapers. Then the court, in a unanimous decision, threw out an indictment against the C.I.O., which campaigned successfully in its News for a Democratic candidate in a Baltimore election last summer. Still unanswered by the court was the larger question: Can unions legally contribute funds directly to a political campaign...
...student body to 1,100, extended the campus to 30 states and 400 offices, stores and factories, from the Washington Post to Macy's basement. Antioch students often join unions, and two years ago the college gave one coed full credit when she spent most of her work term on a picket line...
Impressed, tight-fisted John Taber's committee approved the biggest appropriation yet for Hargrave's stockpilers: $300 million for emergency use, $300 million for long-term contracting. Though Congress approved, Hargrave still had $2.5 billion to go if the five-year program was to be completed on schedule...
...Thomas Parran, former PHS Surgeon General (TIME, Feb. 23), who had been considered a likely choice. Dr. Parran has been careful in his public statements, but Congressmen have accused him of using "extraordinary executive pressure" to stir up public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn't say a man 5 feet 7 inches tall...