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...strike-control bill passed the House on the first day of the convention. When Smith appeared at the Waldorf next day, he was given an ovation. The challenging power of the unions, always N.A.M.'s chief concern, was still the favorite topic in the corridors. The Congress also refought some other old N.A.M. ideological wars: bureaucracy, Government spending, the public debt, "unwise taxation" (N.A.M. wants a general sales tax). The Congress was vitally concerned with how to make sure private enterprise survives this war. It was also concerned with how production can best be organized...
Work Relief. In the Senate Appropriations Committee the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief bill, rubber-stamped by the House under gag rule, was receiving its first critical appraisal. The Committee fought in miniature the battle that will be refought on the Senate floor: between 1) Conservatives who oppose handing the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double...
...victory when an amendment to substitute the dole for work relief failed by a tie vote; the Liberals won a temporary victory by a 12-to-8 vote to boost relief wages to prevailing rates; the Inflationists lost on a greenback amendment. But these were inconclusive skirmishes, to be refought in the Senate. Despite opposition only a major accident was likely to upset the Administration's plans because 1) its bill is in effect a compromise which all the warring factions would prefer to the proposals of their opponents; 2) in conference the well-gagged House can probably veto...
...futile, the warriors voted a truce (adjournment) before beginning the long winter campaign (regular session?see p. 12). Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate. And whenever the Senate does finish fighting, the whole war must be refought in House-Senate conferences. Legislative forecasters declared no tariff bill would reach the President until next March?14 months after it was started by the House Ways & Means Committee...
...last hockey match did not give Harvard the victory once and for all. The outcome was not a decisive determination of superiority. Tonight, that victory is to be refought. Both teams are determined, the margin of strength and skill is narrow, and the safest predictions will be made tomorrow...