Presidential Vetoes and the Truman Record
News analysis notes Truman used the veto 74 times to the 79th Congress, compares Roosevelt Cleveland Grant and Washington, explains pocket veto and veto history, cites figures on overriden vetoes and counts how many presidents avoided or embraced veto power.
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Elm trees and Dutch elm disease threaten historic DC avenues
The author laments elm losses from storms and disease, warning that funding cuts could end research at Morristown NJ, jeopardizing the elm population. He recalls historic White House plantings by presidents and notes elms’ place in America’s landscape and memory.
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology and
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Benjamin Harrison
Hartley lashes out over coal pact as lawmakers debate labor deals
Rep. Fred A. Hartley accuses big business and big labor of betraying the public in the Taft-Hartley era coal pact with the United Mine Workers. He cites a wage checkoff provision as a legal violation while warning of collusion between miners and the UMW. Separately, Hungary and four Communist governments snub the Paris reconstruction conference as Europe races to marshal Marshall Plan aid.
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Big Business
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Europe
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Romania
Bulgaria
Great Britain
France
Finland
Albania
Navy resignations surge as officers quit for civilian pay
Higher pay and a better home life lure capable young career officers from the navy and army into civilian jobs. In ten months more than 1,700 naval officers resigned commissions at Annapolis for better paying work, while the army lost 259 West Point officers, a hit officials say the service cannot easily replace.
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Farm assets and income rise sharply in war years
A National Industrial Conference Board report shows farm assets growing about 90 percent from 1940 to 1946 and gross agricultural income up 124 percent, with cash farm receipts increasing to 20.8 billion in 1945 and real estate rising to 56.6 billion. Royal engagement noted for Princess Elizabeth to be married in autumn. Geological and political notes follow with export licensing to Russia sparking debate in Congress.
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Elizabeth
Greece
George VI
Lt. Mountbatten
Victoria
Britain
Prince Albert
Saxe-Coburg
George
Tricky date dress pattern draws nationwide fashion interest
A pattern 1653 offers a waist whittling wide girdle and diagonal closing seen across the country. It lists sizes 13 to 18 and uses 344 yards of fabric per 3 or 4.
Farm income rises 30 percent in first half of 1947
Washington report shows farmers earned 11.7 billion from product sales and about 12 billion with government payments, with meat animal sales up 70 percent and dairy cash receipts up 30 percent from the prior year. Crops brought in around 3.8 billion, grains and tobacco leading gains.
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Agriculture Department
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