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6. Congressman Knutson of Minnesota, meanwhile, continued to shout that the No. 1 business of the special session should be:
1. Tax reduction.
2. Laws to outlaw Communism in the U.S.
3. Strengthening of neutrality laws to prevent U.S. entry into another war.
4. Appropriations to strengthen the military defenses of the nation.
5. Erection of more stringent immigration barriers to bar "undesirable aliens" from corning here from Europe.
7. Congress also held several investigations, one of which brought contempt citations to ten Hollywood writers and producers who refused to answer a question on:
1. Their annual incomes.
2. Their religious convictions.
3. Whether or not they ever introduced subversive propaganda into movies.
4. Whether they were Communists.
5. Their allegiance to the U.S.
8. And just before Howard Hughes returned to Washington for hearings of the Senate War Investigating subcommittee, he made headlines by:
1. Admitting "irregularities" in his government contracts.
2. Declaring he had been "betrayed" by Johnny Meyer, his press agent.
3. Flying his mammoth flying boat.
4. Stating he would answer no more questions.
5. Signing over all profits from his movie, The Outlaw, to European relief.
9. One of these recommendations was not included in the President's State of the Union message to Congress:
1. Strengthened civil rights legislation.
2. Continued price supports and crop insurance.
3. A 75¢ minimum wage.
4. Increased state aid for education, housing and public health.
5. Admission of larger numbers of displaced persons.
10. . . . and in his budget message, one of these items was not asked for:
1. $11 billion for defense.
2. $7 billion for overseas commitments.
3. $3 billion for small business loans and subsidies.
4. $6 billion for veterans.
5. $5 billion interest on the national debt.
11. To head the newly -reorganized Voice of America, the President appointed, as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs:
1. William Benton. 4. George V. Allen.
2. Chan Gurney. 5. Palmer "Ep" Hoyt.
3. Archibald MacLeish.
12. One of the following was not listed by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson as a government insider who may have profited in grain speculation:
1. Democratic Committeeman Ed Pauley.
2. White House Physician Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham.
3. Presidential Military Attache Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan.
4. Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau.
5. Mrs. Elmer Thomas, wife of the senior Senator from Oklahoma.
13. The President's Air Policy Commission made all but one of the following suggestions:
1. That the U.S. develop an air arm capable of dealing with possible atomic attack by Jan. 1, 1953.
2. That the Navy be held at its present strength.
3. That $3.9 billion be spent for military planes in the next two years.
4. That U.S. airlines be kept "strong and healthy."
5. That a Secretary for Air be appointed at once and given cabinet rank.
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14. While many in the U.S. feared inflationary effects of general tax reductions, there was widespread support