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...last week the Republican-led 80th Congress had been in session nine weeks. To date it had not accomplished much: it was still getting ready to do a lot of things...
...Bilbo finally came across with the $100,000 church and parsonage he had been promising constituents ever since 1928. About 10,000 of them, flivvered down to Juniper Grove to get in on the 3,000-lb. beef barbecue. The Man had offered to let the whole 80th Congress come along in a body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn't talking: his mouth was still bandaged from a recent operation. But after...
Died. Grace Livingston Hill, 81, indefatigable, ' hugely successful author (79 novels; total sales: 4,000,000 copies) of pleasant, religion-flavored morality tales; while working on her 80th book; in Swarthmore...
...curs, and labor legislation, the Republican leadership with unusually little noise and difficulty has obtained all bit final Congressional approval for a constitutional amendment limit Presidential tenure. This piece of "must" legislation is another all-too-common example of hasty, vengeance-begotten acts which have already thrown the 80th Congress into a maze of political confusion on each of the three, mentioned spotlighted issues...
...other words, the U.S. would rue the day if the 80th Congress now undertook to undo the work of New Deal Congresses...