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Control. Barring a special session, the 72nd Congress will first convene Dec. 7, 1931. As all observers hastened to point out, the Congressional line-up during the intervening twelve months will undoubtedly be shifted to one party or the other by deaths or resignations.* To add to the uncertainty of control at least a dozen House and Senate elections will be formally contested after Congress meets, in addition to earlier recounts in the field. In an Indiana Congressional District (8th), for example, a Republican claimed victory by ten votes out of 88,400 while in an Illinois district (24th...
...Democratic party . . . will steer the legislation of the nation in a straight line toward the goal of prosperity. . . . The 72nd Congress will not be an obstructive body. It will not seek to embarrass the President. ... It has in mind no rash policies. Its legislative leaders are serious men, constructive but not reactionary. . . . They know perfectly well that even enlightened political selfishness demands that business should not be frightened. ... If there are delays, embarrassments and confusion in the 72nd Congress, the fault will lie with the other party failing to join us in a conscientious effort to subordinate politics...
...lone Negro member of the 71st Congress will be the lone Negro member of the 72nd. No Democrat was strong enough to oust Republican Representative Oscar De Priest, pride of Chicago's "Black Belt...
...charge of the 72nd Congressional election?all 435 Representatives and 35 of the 96 Senators** ? were no such historic phrasemakers as Jim Good. Chief of the Republican side was Ohio's professorial little Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman (faute de mieux) of the Republican National Committee. Chief of the Democratic side was Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, very much offstage because of his Catholicism, Wetness and political naivete. While Chairman Fess went about making more or less perfunctory speeches, the actual work was done for the G. O. P. by plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry...
...control of the 72nd Congress continued to seesaw, Democrats, led by Chairman Jouett Shouse, continued to claim a full House majority of their own without insurgent Republican aid. They placed a heavy stake on Kentucky where a new law delayed the count which they hoped would put their party across and elevate Representative John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speakership...