Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather embittering period in the Pacific Theater of Operations, I have read some pretty disheartening things about our attempt to sell democracy to the rest of the world. But I can recall no other single account which has caused me to feel greater discouragement than your report under The Congress [TIME...
Harry Truman had laid the issue squarely on the line at Thursday's Cabinet session. Fresh from a long chance to do his own thinking at Key West, Fla., he had demanded a clear-cut affirmative Asia policy on his desk before Congress reconvened Jan. 3, proposed that the Cabinet officers produce just such a policy at the meeting of the National Security Council this week. When Louis Johnson pleaded for a little more time, the President said nothing doing. Moreover, he added, he would preside at the meeting himself...
When he left for Independence, Mo. and Christmas at home, the President had not indicated which side he took. If he should ask Congress for higher taxes, he was apt to get a flat turndown. The President was about ready to give in to congressional appeals for a reduction of wartime excise taxes, would probably agree to removal of federal taxes on such items as transportation, fur coats and jewelry.* But in return he would insist that Congress make up the loss by raising taxes elsewhere-say on corporations, which, as every Congressman knows, have no vote...
...punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress...
Georgia in Manhattan. With the backing of the university and $100,000 from the Library of Congress, he and his photographer traveled more than 55,000 miles, took 120,000 feet of film (the equivalent of about 2,000,000 pages). They lugged their cameras through legislative archives, university libraries, historical societies, rare bookshops, attics, basements, law courts and Indian reservations. They unearthed and photographed early court calendars, state lunatic asylum records, governors' letters, city treasurers' reports, letters of U.S. Indian agents and manuscripts of colonial legislation (among them: the famed Massachusetts Body of Liberties...