Word: interims
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...Banging Gavel. But before its final passage, interim aid had rough going. In the House, Republican isolationists had worked furiously to slash or hamstring the bill. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana led the attack...
...final form, the interim aid bill authorized the Administration to spend up to $597 million this winter. This week, it was approved by both the Senate (by voice vote) and the House (313 to 82). Pending actual appropriations, aid could be started immediately with a loan of $150 million from...
...House went to work on amendments this week, there was no doubt that the interim aid bill would pass, eventually-in just about the shape the Senate had already approved. Meanwhile, the bitterest congressional foes of Communism seemed curiously determined to play the obstructionist role which would best suit the Communist game...
While Congress bickered, Harry Truman had slipped away to Key West for a holiday. This week, as the House prepared to vote on interim aid, the President was back. With the bounce restored to his step, he buckled down to prepare his message to Congress on the long-range European Recovery Program...
...mind and understanding. Schweitzer's chief point: Jesus, like many Jews of his time, believed that God was momentarily about to end the physical world and inaugurate his Kingdom. In this expectation, reasoned Schweitzer, Christ sent out his disciples to announce the coming Kingdom, and preached an unworldly "interim ethic" designed to prepare man for an imminent end of the world...