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Last week the Republican view on this issue was baldly stated by Senator Styles Bridges and Representative Joseph Martin. They wrote: "Throughout the 82nd Congress, the Democratic Administration continued its stubborn resistance to the exposure of Communists, fellow travelers, other subversives and their sympathizers in Government...
Inflation by Law. There was no doubt that the 82nd Congress this year weakened the price-control structure (e.g., controls on canned foods were wiped out), as Ellis Arnall and others charged. But the foundation was a crumbling mass before that happened. Some of the crumbles...
...convention city had been something of a triumph. At station after station, thousands of people gathered to catch a glimpse of him, hear him denounce Taft's steamroller methods. For a while, after his arrival, Eisenhower forgot politics and attended the annual reunion of the veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division. Amid flickering candles and muffled drums for the dead, Eisenhower wept. He recalled how he had visited the 82nd on the eve of its drop into Normandy, how the men had smiled at him and told him in effect: "Don't worry." Now, at Chicago...
Anxious to get out to Chicago and the serious business of politicking, the nation's lawmakers chopped away furiously last week at the jungle of neglected legislation which had to be dealt with before the 82nd Congress could adjourn for the last time. Night after night, a small light under the statue on the Capitol dome burned brightly, indicating that Congress was at work. In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words:' "Without objection, so ordered...
...such a bad one. But after McKellar had slumped back into his chair, Hickenlooper and his supporters won the day. At dawn, in a turbulent voice vote, the Senate sent the bill back to conference. This week the conference reached a compromise on the atomic energy appropriation, and the 82nd Congress adjourned...