Word: session
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made it difficult for Republicans to agree on U. S. foreign policy, future Hitler victories were not likely to make their task easier, before or after the election. But, as every political commentator noted, something like a revolution had swept Republican ranks. When America was sung at the opening session, the nomination was still wide open. The 1,000 delegates were unbossed, maverick-wild. Amateur enthusiasts had swept into town, breaking down long-laid plans, outmoding deals, making all estimates wild guesses...
...rest. Congress did its scared best to bolster U. S. national defense. A bill appropriating $1,770,000,000 for the Army & Navy, which would have been denounced as warmongering six months ago, was passed like a shot. The bill boosted defense spending and authorizations for this session to well above $5,000,000,000. The House passed a bill authorizing a 70% expansion of the Navy (see p. 12), sent it to the Senate, where it was sure to pass...
...taxed. Testifying on a bill to broaden the Federal income-tax base, raise upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in new taxes (TIME, June 17), Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau welcomed a thorough, time-taking overhaul of the tax system-should Congress care to stay in session long enough to do the job. The House passed the stopgap bill anyway, sent it to the restive Senate...
...week's end, the call to stay in session (with temporary recesses for the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions) was too loud for the Administration to ignore. The President found it expedient to deny that he had ever bade Congress be done and be gone. Sam Rayburn and House Speaker William Bankhead, who had been preaching adjournment by June 22, also gave up. Said Mr. Bankhead, while Sam Rayburn nodded his homely old head in agreement: "I think that we might as well be candid about it. I don't think that we can adjourn as planned...
Chaplain for the opening session, Rev. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney will invoke Providence...