Congress From Page One congressional energy on adjournment and policy bills
Senator Taft outlined GOP aims to adjourn by July 15 after speeches in Illinois opposing Dirksen while Wherry urged action on Social Security expansion tax cuts and base points bill. Lucas pushed to pass basing point freight rates and CCC borrowing boost before social security focus. House-passed 625,493,694 deficit bill funds VA and Post Office. FEPC revival planned after Democrats return to town.
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Post Office Department
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Communism urged by Baptist leader in Boston convention
The Northern Baptist Convention president told 5000 delegates that Communism thrived where churches were least democratic and urged Baptists to serve the common people. Mrs. Colwell urged humility and unity, recalling Baptist history from Roger Williams’s exile in 1634 to 1680 protests against establishment laws. She discussed union with a similar denomination and Baptists’ democratic heritage.
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Northern Baptist Convention
Tech
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Cole
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Colwell
Roger Williams
Senate Debates Plan to Transfer Agencies and Patent Office
Senate debates a Truman plan to move administration of major federal programs including the Patent Office. Senator Wiley leads opposition citing the Patent Office as a semijudicial body to be excluded. Kilgore notes opposition from the patent bar while Aiken argues the plan protects temporary GSA staff.
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Senate
Department
Patent: J Office
Patent Office
Kilgore
D-W.va
Truman
Patent Bar
Lawlers
General Services , Administration
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Big Mo Officers Given New Posts
Norfolk Va Navy officials reassigned four top officers from the battleship Missouri after its January grounding in Chesapeake Bay. Captain William D Brown commanded the ship briefly before joining submarine group five at Green Cove Springs. Millett moves to Washington to join the defense department's research board. Morris heads to the Key West anti submarine unit. Executive officer Peckham leaves command for Stanford University graduate work.
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Navy
Missouri
Chesapeake Bay
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John R. Millett
Frank G. Morris
Brrwen
Big Mo
Eft
Green Cove Springs
Ela
Millett
Department of Defense
Research and Development Board
Washington
Mortis
Key West
Fla
George B. Peckham
Stanford University
Five Legislative Plans Kill Reorganization Proposals
The Senate thwarted five reform plans that would have ended the office of general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board and reorganized major agencies. The measures sought changes to the Treasury Agriculture Interior interstate commerce and Federal Communications Commissions, shifting record keeping duties to the Labor Department.
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Russia to Ignore U.S. Protest Note
Radio Moscow indicated Russia would ignore the May 5 American note accusing Soviet forces of shooting 10 men in an unarmed U.S. Navy Privateer over the Baltic Sea. The broadcast said the State Department charge was groundless, stating the plane shot down on April 8 was a defenseless Navy Privateer, not a B-29, and was attacked over international air space.
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U.S
London
Radio
Moscow
Baltic Seas
State Department
Dewey Aid Denies Story On Reelection Talk
Governor Dewey's secretary James C. Hagerty denied a published report that Dewey told Republican leaders in Washington he would run for reelection. Hagerty, on a three week tour, said Dewey has not discussed running again with national or state leaders, and any June 9 timing would be speculation.
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Albany
Dewey
Washington
James C. Hagerty
Nat Dewey
New York State
Hagerty
Wallace's Party Plans FEPC Demonstration in NYC
Wallace's Progressive Party announced a marathon vigil outside the U S Senate Office Building to press the Pair Employment Practices Commission FEPC bill. The demonstration aims to continue until the Senate acts to end the filibuster and pass the FEPC measure. The party urged church labor civic and professional groups to join.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
U. S. Senate
FEPC
Senate
Une
Snyder to Quit Convention Hears in Hot Springs
Reports from the 60th annual convention of the American Bankers Association in Hot Springs say Treasury Secretary Snyder plans to resign his post. Delegates hinted that Snyder would step down while addressing the gathering and advised the convention to prepare for a leadership transition.
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Hot Springs
Ayk
INS
Treasury
American Bankera Association
May 23 1950 Syracuse Herald item on economic plan clash
The Syracuse Herald Journal reports tensions over the administration's financial program with loans and policy disagreements. In Germany, a deadly weekend mine explosion in Gelsenkirchen left a death toll rising, with six more possibly dying as doctors from Paris assess the injured.
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Roverhjhess
Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Paris
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