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Organized as the 74th Congress, the Senate and House proceeded to open their marching orders. In joint session, with the Cabinet sitting among them, below galleries jammed with diplomats and famed ladies (Mrs. Roosevelt's party of guests exceeded the dimensions of the Presidential box, overflowed into the gallery aisles), the Congressmen listened to President Roosevelt report on the State of the Union (see col. I). Three days later, like good soldiers, they listened to their first detailed instructions in his budget message...
...House of Representatives last week, Tallulah Bankhead was the most twittery actress in all New York. She plucked up a telephone, called Washington, chirped: "Congratulations, Daddy, congratulations!" And when Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead was carried to the Naval Hospital with a cold and indigestion day before the 74th Congress opened, Daughter Tallulah flew to the Capital, ran to his bedside. Said she as she left his room: "Daddy will be all right. I talked a blue streak and it may not have helped him any. . . . Daddy just won't take care of himself...
...young. Biologists compute that if all the offspring of a single oyster should survive they would confuse the solar system. Within five generations one oyster's offspring, closely packed together, would bulk eight times as large as the earth. Last week on the first day of the 74th Congress, Representatives, less prolific than oysters, dropped 2,964 bills into the bill box at the right of the Speaker's rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise be in sore confusion. But the chances of a bill...
...players were Democratic Representatives who saw a chance of advancement. First there was long, lanky Joseph Wellington Byrns of Nashville. As Majority Floor Leader in the 73rd Congress he claimed precedent, tradition, seniority and everything but divine right for his elevation to the Speakership of the 74th. To that good start he added the still stronger claim of gratitude. As chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Committee bushy-browed "Joe" Byrns wrote letters to dozens of Democrats in the last Congress who wanted to be reelected, authorizing them to tell their constituents that "Joe" Byrns said they were indispensable...
Washington, Dec. 17--The administration is determined to prevent any "soak-the-rich" movement in the 74th Congress from reaching the point where it will cause another stampede by business and industry away from the New Deal, it was learned tonight...