THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW LONG out of direct touch with the people, members of both houses of Congress have now gone home for the rest of the Summer after sitting in almost continuous session since...
...Two of the committee members, Sens...
...9. Expansion of the Social Security program...
...The War Production Board announced last week that civilians will be able to buy radios for Christmas presents this year...
...Row...
...Arthur Van-denberg, Michigan Republican, urged the Labor Department to sponsor a labor-industry-Government conference so that all groups interested in industrial peace "frankly face the need for a better, mutual advancement in the desperately uncertain times that lie ahead in an otherwise chaotic postwar world...
...Names And Notes In The News Hiram Johnson...
...James E. Murray, Montana Democrat, and jointly sponsored by other Senators were held briefly last week and adjourned to the Fall...
...Planning For The Fall Meanwhile, Senate leaders of both the Republican and Democratic Parties met last week to plan their legislative strategy for the Fall reconvening...
...Creation of additional river valley regional programs patterned on the model of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...In Congress Johnson played a potent role in behalf of building Boulder Dam and in the creation of the giant Central Valley project...
...Taft, chairman of the committee, and Wagner, Eadcliffe, Buck, La Follette, Ellender, and Chavez...
...The quest for full employment, for instance, has now been translated into legislative form, and preliminary hearings on the bill introduced by Sen...
...with your previous speeches and articles...
...Maybank, South Carolina Democrat, last week demanded enactment of legislation which would require these refugee profiteers to pay the same high wartime tax rates levied on American citizens...
...The Taft statement called for an immediate halt in the drafting of men into the armed services and early relaxation of wartime controls on business...
...The cost of living index stood at 129 per cent of the 1935-'39 average on June 15...
...Tax-Dodgers...
...Pepper (Florida), Kilgore (West Virginia), Johnson (Colorado), Mag-nuson (Washington), Green (Rhode Island), Mead (New York), Johnston (South Carolina), Mitchell (Washington), Taylor (Idaho), and Murdock (Utah...
...Barkley and discussed by the Senate Democrats, was advanced this week by Sen...
...Hearings on the measure will begin in the Fall, and Sen...
...The University of Texas has been suspended indefinitely by the Southern Association of Colleges as a result of its regents' action last year in dismissing Dr...
...The Labor Department reported last week that the cost of living in June reached the highest level since the Spring of 1921...
...Elimination of monopolies and cartels...
...4. A one-man administration of surplus war property disposal...
...He insisted that he had "nothing to conceal," and he hoped the Treasury Department, now investigating his financial affairs, would make the facts public as soon as possible...
...John Rankin, Mississippi Democrat, so mad that he demanded the removal of Secretary of War Stimson, Undersecretary Patterson, and Assistant Secretary McCloy for "using their offices to indoctrinate members of the armed forces with Communistic philosophy...
...Brig...
...Science...
...Wagner and Ellender, promptly introduced a bill designed to make possible the rebuilding of American cities and the rehousing of millions of families in low and medium income brackets...
...It must be peace with justice...
...Aroused by press reports showing that rich European refugees have reaped huge profits in American stock markets but have not paid taxes, Sen...
...But the CP leadership was not impressed with Browder's change of heart and wrote him that "it finds it difficult to reconcile your statement...
...Johnson was best known to readers of the daily press as a relentless foe of American membership in the old League of Nations and the new United Nations organization, Hiram Johnson left behind a long, brilliant record as a battler for progress on the home front...
...He led the fight in California for workmen's compensation, protective legislation for women, railroad regulation, and prison reforms...
...Browder wrote a letter to his late comrades hailing the work of the recent Communist convention as "a consolidation of our ranks on the foundation of correct Marxist-Leninist concepts...
...3. An emergency $18,375,000 Federal housing program for the distressed families of service men...
...More than a dozen New Deal Senate Democrats, describing themselves as having "a little more liberal attitude than their colleagues," held a private meeting to discuss plans for enacting postwar legislation when Congress reassembles...
...Others, however, represented concrete goals embodied in concrete legislation...
...8. Broadened medical care for low-income families...
...Elbert D. Thomas, Utah Democrat...
...Taft called for abolition of wage controls in 1946 and demanded that Congress should force the Office of Price Administration to drop price curbs on nonessential items and provide "adequate prices" on essential goods to stimulate small business manufacturing...
...Homer P. Rainey as president...
...Leaders of the group vehemently denied that there had been any discussion, as reported in the press, of fears that the Truman Administration was turning too far to the right...
...Radios...
...See Fred Rodell's article, Page 5.) 5. A "full employment" program with the Federal Government playing a greater role in guaranteeing job opportunities...
...We must have peace at home...
...1. Reorganization of the executive branch of the Government...
...Peace abroad is not enough...
...Stabilization of farm income...
...Unless War Production Board controls are relaxed, we can never get started on new housing, farm machinery, reconversion machinery, or hundreds of basic materials required if men are to be put to work when they come out of the Army...
...Thomas were these other Democrats: Sens...
...The War Department promptly retorted that there was no question of the loyalty of the 16 men...
...Elliot Denial...
...An insurgent Republican nearly all his life, Johnson broke with his party in 1932 to support Franklin D. Roosevelt for President...
...Highway improvement and construction...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW LONG out of direct touch with the people, members of both houses of Congress have now gone home for the rest of the Summer after sitting in almost continuous session since January...
...The 7 months of the current session were given over largely to foreign affairs—ratification of the San Francisco charter, adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary program, extension of the lending powers of the Export-Import bank, and other proposals for widening U. S. participation in international affairs— but almost no action was completed on the crucial home-front problems of reconversion...
...15 at his own request, the 34-year-old brigadier general broke his silence on reports that he had tapped rich men with troubles in Washington for some $800,000 in loans...
...See Miles Colean's article, Page 4.) 7. Postwar reduction of corporate and personal income taxes...
...An attempt by Earl Browder, who has been bounced as U. S. Communist leader, to square himself with the new party line failed last week...
...Vandenberg's proposal for a joint conference won immediate support of Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach and spokesmen for industry, the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the United Mine Workers of America...
...The WPB has authorized manufacturers in the last 3 months of this year to produce 2,500,000 radios, about half the pre-war civilian output...
...He said that he conducted his own business affairs and that "the responsibility for them was and still is mine and mine alone...
...Although Sen...
...I doubt whether it can be dictated by summary legislation (except as a last resort...
...Legislation creating a National Science Foundation to give Government aid to postwar scientific research will soon be introduced by the Senate's Kilgore Committee...
...In spite of a lot of nice talk," Taft declared, "the OPA is clinging to every power and imposing even more rigid controls on legitimate business while black market operations increasingly flourish...
...Elliot Roosevelt, second son of the late President, bitterly denied last week that his father had ever assisted him in promoting business loans...
...A House subcommittee charged last week that 16 Army officers have "Communistic backgrounds...
...The report, analyzed on Page 4 of this issue, was prepared by Sens...
...2. Broadening of unemployment compensation to allow $25 a week for as long as 26 weeks during the reconversion period...
...Present with Sen...
...We must create a mutual equitable relationship between capital and management, on the one hand, and organized labor on the other hand— protecting the legitimate rights of each, and always consulting the general welfare—to the end that needless strife shall not impair reconversion and permanently jeopardize the country and all its citizenship...
...But just before it recessed until Oct...
...The economic Bill of Rights which the late President Roosevelt recommended in January, 1944...
...Hiram Johnson, long a colorful, crusading progressive, died in Washington this week at 79...
...Ordered released from Army service on Aug...
...Employment And Housing Some of these, of course, were little more than the pious expression of good intentions...
...Principal purpose of the meeting, he said, was td map plans for expediting reconversion legislation when Congress resumes...
...This made Rep...
...The GOP's Program A Republican legislative program, opposing some of the principal features of the agenda listed by Sen...
...I decline to believe that it cannot be written into law by the common recommendation of all concerned if they can meet together, under proper auspices, to face a challenge which cannot long go unanswered...
...The bill would make fellowships available to deserving students in an effort to build up scientific research in the U. S. * * * Suspension...
...Conference On Labor Relations A basic issue in the explosive months ahead will be labor-industry relations...
...The Senate's special committee on housing issued its final report last week after intensive investigation...
...8, the Senate heard from Democratic Leader Alben Bark-ley that critical problems remain unsolved and that at least 15 "immediate and urgent" issues must be resolved when Congress reassembles...
...Wagner expressed the hope that the bill might become law before the end of the year...
...In the field of housing, too, objectives are now being rounded into specific legislative form...
...Cost of Living...
...In going over "some of the more pressing problems that await our attention," Barkley listed the following requests of the late President Roosevelt and President Truman on which Congress has not yet acted...
...Financial aid for small business enterprises...
...Rebuff...
...Robert Taft, Ohio, chairman of the GOP Steering Committee...
...As governor of California 35 years ago, he was instrumental in writing into his state constitution such provisions as the initiative, the referendum and recall, the direct primary, women's suffrage, and the non-partisan election of city and county officials...
...Last week Sen...
...You couldn't get a liberal and non-liberal scrap out of this meeting if you tried a hundred years," said Sen...
...6. A long-range Federal housing program...
...Taft urged inauguration of a housing program in which state and local governments would take the initiative, with "reasonable Federal aid," and recommend Federal assistance on a program of health, education, and expanded social security...
Vol. 9 • August 1945 • No. 33
