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Show the-grave" measure, endorsed by 'the AFL. and CIO, would provide a single national social insurance system all financed out of one single fund covering unemployment unemploy-ment compensation, employment service, permanent disability, temporary tem-porary sickness, maternity, medical medi-cal care and hospitalization insurance, insur-ance, a broader old-age pension system, and federal grants to the states for public assistance. It will be late this year before the Senate Finance Committee can "possibly" begin to consider the program, according to Corn-mi Corn-mi 1 1 e e Chairman Walter F. George. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Hen-ry Morgenthau, Jr., states that War Bond purchases should be absorbing 25 cents of every dollar of the average American family's income by the end of 1943. A constitutional amendment to limit the Presidency to two elective elec-tive terms is proposed in a resolution reso-lution (S. J. Res. 65) introduced by Senator Josiah J. Bailey of North Carolina. The amendment would require ratification by three-fourths three-fourths of the states within seven years. (Ojnihinqtm JameS Preston Stirred by Lewis' defiance of the government, Congress is endeavoring en-deavoring to clarify legislation not only to halt coal mine work stoppage but to lay down a national na-tional labor policy. A few hours after the President had ordered the miners to return to work the House adopted by a wide margin a compromise version ver-sion of the Connally Plant Seizure Bill designed to correct some of the more flagrant labor abouses. While this measure, adopted by a vote of 231 to 141, went farther than the original Connally proposal, propos-al, it was not as stringent as the version approved by the House Military Affairs Committee. It does, however, go considerably beyond be-yond Administration wishes. Opinion is expressed that the Maloney Bill which would have set up an autonomous civilian supply sup-ply department and the Pepper-Kilgore Pepper-Kilgore Bill to set up the OWM by statute are practically dead because be-cause of the executive creation of the Office of War Mobilization. ReDresentative Augustine B. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, has introduced in-troduced a bill which would forbid the release of any member of the armed forces from active duty after af-ter the war without his consent and without his having secured or having been assured gainful employment em-ployment in civilian life. Many Congressmen interpreted the resignation of Dr. Galbraith and its acceptance as one of the first concrete steps taken toward fulfilling Adminstrator Prentiss Brown's promise that college professors pro-fessors in OPA would be replaced by practical business men. Senator Robert F. Wagnes has introduced a Bill (S. 1161) setting u) a new and broadened social security se-curity program. This "cradle-to- |