Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine minutes to answer it. Look up the Republican platform, he said, and you will find that the Morse record closely followed it. Other questioners wanted to know about the Columbia Valley Administration and the Administration's health insurance bill. He opposed CVA, he explained, because it would take control...
...last week to put final touches and a stamp of approval on "strategic concepts for the integrated defense of the North Atlantic area." This was necessary to get the first $1 billion of U.S. military aid rolling; in approving the military assistance program for the U.S.'s allies, Congress had stipulated that Western Europe's defense must be certified feasible by the military chiefs before any funds could be expended...
...France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked out of the W.F.T.U.; the other non-Red unions followed...
...London's County Hall last week, 261 delegates from 53 countries, representing some 48 million members, met to launch a new international non-Communist labor organization. Provisional title: the Free World Labor Congress...
...International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen for the job of general secretary of the congress...