Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irascible and abusive, trumpeting social theories with a black cigar upthrust from under his bushy mustaches, he roared through three decades of Oklahoma politics. He served two terms in Congress, twice ran unsuccessfully for governor, borrowed $40 in 1930 to run again and won, and offered himself in 1932 as a Democratic presidential candidate. In 1935 he faded into the background, nursing a hatred of the New Deal...
...more than two years, the trade unions had grudgingly gone along with the government's policy of virtually freezing wages & prices. But when devaluation of the pound thawed out some prices and sent them climbing upwards, the unions' rank & file rebelled. Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) presented new demands: higher wages, more government subsidies to keep food prices down, additional taxes to cut down business profits...
...tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before the Okinawa garrison will have adequate housing. (Congress has so far appropriated $58 million...
...words, balance the budget over a period of years. But if this was the policy, why was the U.S. running a deficit now? John Snyder's answer was at least partly political. The root of the trouble he said, was the tax cut by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congress is so seared of universal military training in peacetime that "there isn't a chance in the world" it will extend the draft law next year, according to top members of the House Armed Services Committee...