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...drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks...
...Administration entered its third year, President Roosevelt was directing most of his efforts toward recovering his grip on the 74th Congress, which was entering its third month without having accomplished for the President any of the major tasks...
Five weeks after embarking on its first annual session, the 74th Congress of the U. S. last week was still drifting along on the current of routine appropriation bills. Only one little rapid had been negotiated: the rejection of the World Court Protocol. Only one prominent landmark had been passed: the renewal of the RFC for two years. But the session floated in a placid pool on the brink of the legislative cataract into which it will plunge when it starts in earnest on the President's program...
President Roosevelt's proposal for unemployment insurance now before the 74th Congress will prove of deeper significance than the casual onlooker may suppose. Introduced at a time when the Gold Clause Cases have crowded it off the front pages and out of the public mind, its legislation has been allowed to be shaped by a handful of theoretical insurance advocates and a certain group of Democratic Barnums and bureaucrats each desirous to amend the bill in some regretable fashion in order to get a modicum of credit...
From the day Congress meets until the day it adjourns some one in Washington is always counting noses. Last week the Associated Press published the first nose count for the 74th Congress. It began with the assumption that President Roosevelt could not prevent the preliminary passage by House and Senate of a certain measure, that his veto would be roughly overridden by the House. It ended with the discovery that 35 Senators-just two more than the requisite number-would vote to sustain the veto. According to the theory of responsible party government, the idea that the leader...