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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupied for nearly one hundred years. From both sides of the aisle came a flurry of windy evocations of the past. Then workmen moved in under the unsightly steel girders which had been supporting the sagging House and Senate roofs since 1940. While a complete $5,000,000 refurbishing went on-from new steel & concrete roofs to television and radio outlets-the House took up a temporary stand across the street in the new House Office Building. The Senate moved back to the old Supreme Court chamber which a 70-member Senate outgrew in 1859. (Both quarters are so cramped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Unmanaged & Unmanageable | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...this went for nothing. Lucas predicted that President Truman would veto the Taft bill if it should pass the House (as was very unlikely). Then the old Taft-Hartley Act, with all the faults in it that Taft admitted to, would remain the nation's labor law. Why? Because the Administration, for obvious political reasons, didn't want it improved; it only wanted to kill it-but couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Second Serving | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Roofs for the Nation | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Went into the beer business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Went into bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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