Word: 74th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home in Gloucester, Mass, early one morning last week, after long illness, died A. Piatt Andrew, onetime (1910-12) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, since 1921 a U. S. Representative. He was the tenth Representative, the 14th member of the 74th Congress to die. When the House met at noon that day, it would have been customary to adjourn at once in tribute to the dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution...
...Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson for a long heart-to-heart. For the first time in four months, flags fluttered over the wings of the Capitol. Such phenomena, observable in Washington last week at noon on the third day of 1936, added up to the fact that the 74th Congress was in session for the second time...
...lying on the floor where it was overturned in the haste of departure; to discover the morning paper lying as usual on the sideboard where it was left four months earlier; to find a forgotten quarter-pound of butter in the icebox- such will be the experience of the 74th Congress as it meets this week. This will be no new Congress but merely a second assembly of an old one picking up where it left off Aug. 26. The bills then in committee pigeonholes will be found in the same pigeonholes. The status of legislation on the calendar will...
...Plan lately stirred politicians (TIME, Dec. 30). The Senate will have a new Farmer-Laborite in the person of Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Minnesota's Governor Olson to succeed the late Senator Schall (see col. 1). But in many ways the most interesting new face in the 74th Congress will be that of Alabama's Representative William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, who has sat in the House for 18 years. A year ago. on the day before Congress met, he was chosen Floor Leader of one of the biggest Democratic majorities in House history (TIME...
Planting himself before a radio microphone last week. Senator Joseph T. Robinson looked back upon the session of the 74th Congress which began eight months ago, was all but overcome with pride at its record. Boomed the Senate Majority Leader: ". . . The session just closing has performed an enormous amount of necessary work. ... It may give you an idea of how Congress kept busy . . . when I tell you that there were presented in the House of Representatives 10,000 bills and resolutions and in the Senate nearly...