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1. 77th Congress. 4. 80th Congress.
2. 78th Congress. 5. 81st Congress.
3. 79th Congress.
6. Highlights of this program included all but one of these:
1. A call for an end to the President's war powers.
2. A drive to reduce income taxes.
3. A proposal to lop some $10 billion off government spending.
4. An attempt to reduce almost all tariffs.
5. An effort to balance the budget.
7. After a struggle, the House of Representatives named as majority leader :
L Charles A. Halleck. 4. Thomas A. Jenkins.
2. Clarence Brown. 5. Vito Marcantonio.
3. Everett M. Dirksen.
8. And in the Senate all but one of these men emerged as dominant figures in the new Congress :
1. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan.
2. Claude Pepper of Florida.
3. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska.
4. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
5. Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine.
9. First important legislation passed by the new House was the bill acceding to President Truman's request for a:
1. Ban on strikes against the Government.
2. Ban on strikes in "vital industries."
3. Continuance of luxury taxes.
4. Larger number of Supreme Court Justices.
5. Reorganization of the Executive Branch.
10. Meantime, in mid-December, this man became the first Republican to announce his candidacy for the 1948 presidential nomination:
1. Arthur H. Vandenberg. 4. Robert A. Taft.
2. Earl Warren. 5. Thomas E. Dewey.
3. Harold E. Stassen.
STATE OF THE UNION
11. Four days after the election the U.S. headed back toward a free economy when the President brushed off price controls on everything but:
1. Automobiles. 4. Sugar, rice, rents.
2. Butter, lards, fats. 5. Wages and salaries.
3. Clothing.
12. On New Year's Eve, the President formally terminated the period of "hostilities" in World War II, and one of the most striking effects of this action was to end the Government's right to:
1. Draft men into the armed forces.
2. Make reciprocal trade agreements.
3. Seize struck plants.
4. Set wage and price ceilings.
5. Tax corporate profits.
13. Within the following week, the President delivered a State of the Union Message, an Economic Report and, a Budget Message in which he did all but one of these:
1. Asked for a budget of $37.5 billion with no reduction in present taxes.
2. Called for legislation to increase the security of the nation's workers.
3. Called for legislation to outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts.
4. Demanded a law to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits.
5. Dismissed foreign policy and foreign trade with a lick and a promise.
14. By far the largest single item in the new budget ($11.2 billion) was for :
L Army & Navy. 4. Transport.
2. Interest on national debt. 5. Veterans' services.
3. International affairs. 15. The Army & Navy agreed on a plan for "unification" under which the Air Force was:
1. Made a part of the Army.
2. Made a part of the Navy.
3. Split between the Army & Navy.
4. Made an