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Under the Reorganization Act, Congress had to make up its mind by Feb. 15 what ceiling it would recommend on expenditures for the next fiscal year (ending June 30, 1948). There had been little time for committee hearings or detailed analysis of the President's budget. But last week the 102-member Joint Committee held a stormy session and hit upon a figure-$31.5 billion, or $6 billion less than Harry Truman had asked...
Whether she will recommend a specific plan for Palestine to the United Nations, or merely turn over all the plans that have been suggested without recommendation, may be announced in the House of Commons on Monday...
...internal solution of her problems has long been considered a happy notion by exuberant students who throw their weight around, restrained only by the admonitory clucking of Yard cops. But in playing it cozy by failing to publicize the extent and frequency of the Parkhurst thefts, and recommend workable counter-steps, the University may well have cut off student noses to save itself face...
...President about to address a new Congress has a threefold problem: he must be firm but not insulting, must recommend without demanding, must be conciliatory but not abject-in short, he must present the best illustration possible of how the executive and legislative departments should work together in a democracy. When the President is of one party and the Congress of another, the problem is intensified...
When the hearing was over, Bilbo, his five lawyers, the committee, and particularly Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, committee chairman and Bilbo buddy, seemed well satisfied. The committee returned to Washington to write a report. Few expected that it would recommend unseating the Senator...