Word: 74th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes more by Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. Seizing time by the forelock Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session of the 74th Congress. . . ." Applause. ''More than 20 of our colleagues-26 to be exact-are now either in hospitals or at their homes suffering from heart trouble or a nervous breakdown.* This Congress has worked long and faithfully and well, and, personally, I insist that the Senate bring its business...
Since Jan. 3 the 74th Congress has run a long lazy race for Jockey Franklin Roosevelt. Partly the fault was his, for not letting Congress know exactly what he wanted, for sending up sloppily drafted measures such as the Social Security Bill which had to be entirely rewritten in the House, for not making up his mind until June that he wanted the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill passed as part of his program. Last week Congress was growing tired, yearning for the finish line, when the President, at last knowing his own mind, began to ride...
...hard to hold together the coalition of New Dealers and Democrats. For at heart the biggest bloc of Democrats still prefers states' rights to centralization of power. Last week's debate on the anti-lynching bill reminded them again. The slowing down of legislation in the 74th Congress can be traced to the unwillingness of Democratic Congressmen to vote the New Deal such power as the AAAmendments...
...days, ending last week, the 74th Congress had passed only one Administration measure: the $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill. The rest of the time it spent on oratory and routine appropriation bills. The Administration measures which Congress has not acted on include...
...74th House he has to worry not only about Congressmen who made grief for other Speakers, but also about an unusually vigorous crop of newcomers. The House has a new clown in Representative Percy Gassaway of Coalgate, Okla., who wears cowboy boots, talks loud about fist fights, poses interminably for pictures and calls himself "OF Gassaway, the Oklahoma cowhand...