Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, he reported, in its last session the 75th Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money...
...Copperheads."Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the President and Senators and Congressmen as in the case of this 75th Congress. Never before have we had so many Copperheads-and you will remember it was the Copperheads who, in the days of the War Between the States, tried their best to make Lincoln and his Congress give up the fight, let the nation remain split in two and return to peace-peace at any price...
...75th Congress, which was to have helped balance the Budget, last week went home having written its John Hancock boldly across the page of U. S. history. For to the 75th, as to the 73rd five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his word that an Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...
This was two thumping billions more than Congress voted even in 1936, when it handed out the two-billion-dollar Soldiers' Bonus. It brought the 75th Congress' spending total to $21,656,174,000 for all three sessions. It shot the net deficit for fiscal 1938 (forecast by the President last January as $1,088.129,600) up to $1,250,000,000. For fiscal 1939 it forecasted a deficit of at least $3,722,000,000. It meant that the national debt, which stood at $37,379,410,474 on June 1, had a good chance of passing...
...Judges. Having killed (in its first session) Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, in its third session the 75th Congress did create the 20 new minor Federal judgeships he had requested...