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...Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's lightly weighted One Hitter, twice in one week, over Mrs. Charles Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...bill establishing a federal university to train men for government service has been introduced in the 81st Congress. Its sponsor, Representative Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.), admits that the bill has almost no chance of passage in view of the many other demands on Congress for money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measure Would Institute National Training School | 9/28/1950 | See Source »

...almost unearthly quiet, the 81st Congress, which was going to reduce taxes $1 billion, was in the process last week of boosting them almost $5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paying One-Third the Bill | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...matters of national defense, the 81st Congress was a body suddenly galvanized. The President's message had hardly been droned out by the reading clerk when the House passed his $1.2 billion Mutual Defense Assistance Program (the Senate already had). The vote in the House: 362 to one (Vito Marcantonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Men in Motion | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...Fell nine short of the 64 votes needed to impose cloture on FEPC, the only way to shut off a filibuster if the bill were brought up. Voting for cloture: 22 Democrats and 33 Republicans; against, 27 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Civil rights legislation was dead in the 81st Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Something Ought To Be Done | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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