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Capitol corridors and committee rooms hummed with debate. Harry Truman had presented his program for interim aid to Europe (long-range ERP recommendations were yet to come) and for inflation controls at home. Now it was up to Congress...
...session was just three days old when Senator Vandenberg's committee reported out the bill authorizing interim aid up to $597 million-exactly what the Administration had asked...
...explaining Europe's needs to visiting Congressmen, always staying tactfully in the background at a time when the U.S. was officially not intervening. When the conferees had finished, he came back to the U.S. with Will Clayton to help screen Europe's requests and draft legislation for interim and long-range aid. He wrote some of the technical and financial clauses himself, flew to Washington again this month to help sell the final product to Congress...
Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey...
...fights and two years later, however, before Lamar hung up his gloves. In the interim he defeated all but one of his opponents, and in 1930 was considered one of the ten top heavyweights in the nation...