Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Associated Press took a look at the $500 million in pay raises voted by Congress and made a few rapid-fire calculations about the costs of Big Government ¶The federal payroll (including the armed services) is now over $10 billion a year...
...latest count this week Quirino was clearly in, with nearly 1,125,000 votes. Laurel was second, with about 930,000, and Avelino a limping last with nearly 237,000. It seemed certain that Quirino's party had gained clear-cut control of both houses of the Philippine Congress...
...hoped that, after a half century of democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as in Occidental Negros Province; U.S. correspondents found that in Manila, the capital, balloting on the whole seemed to be honest. But in most other parts of the islands, the elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and violence...
With the election of his successor less than three weeks away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...
...last week, counting their dead in the thousands, Liberal leaders concluded that they had no chance of a fair election. They withdrew their presidential candidate and ordered their followers to boycott the election. Then, still trying to follow constitutional procedures, a Liberal caucus decided to impeach the President in Congress for failure to keep democratic order, and informed him of its intention. Thirty minutes after learning that, Ospina struck...