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With notable lack of enthusiasm, the lame-duck 81st Congress limped back into Washington this week for one final fling at the legislative process. Only about 250 House members showed up, and a full 25 Senators were absent from the first roll call...
...bald, urbane Speaker Sam Rayburn called his charges to order promptly at noon in the Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...Unemployed. The President had also failed to hook a full-time civilian defense director, or someone to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust prosecutions. At the end of the lame-duck session of the 81st Congress he would have eleven Democratic ex-Senators and 47 ex-Congressmen to pick from. But what he really needed were some able men from industry, and they wouldn't come...
...Spain got the EGA loan he had been seeking. With the air of a man holding his nose and obeying an unpleasant command, ECA announced that it would begin "immediately" to channel to Spanish industries and companies the $62.5 million in ECA funds set aside for Spain by the 81st Congress. Able no longer to ignore the will of Congress, despite its own contempt for the Franco dictatorship, the Administration did its best to make it look as unlike a Marshall Plan project as possible. ECA would send no mission to Madrid, would leave the handling of the money...
...Know the President." These were some of the congressional problems which confronted Administration Democrats this week as Mr. Truman prepared a message for the lame-duck 81st Congress, due to reconvene on Nov. 27. Mr. Truman showed no signs of backing away from his program. "You know the President," said one White House adviser. "He never retreats...