Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while the 75th Congress hustled through the last busy hours of a four-and-a-half-month session (see p. 10), Franklin Roosevelt suffered from traveler's itch. Finally came the hour when he could send a message to Congress saying he had "no further business" for it. By the time Congress had chosen a committee to notify the President that it was ready to adjourn, Franklin Roosevelt's special train with him aboard was highballing out of Washington's Union Station. Once more Father Roosevelt was off to one of those family ceremonies which...
When the first session of the 75th Congress adjourned last August, Franklin Roosevelt pointedly omitted to thank the members for their 229 days of work. They had killed his Supreme Court bill. They had left undone many things he thought they ought to have done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress...
...wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven other States where his presence may help political friends up for election this autumn...
...ambitious Governor "Happy" Chandler-it began last January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...
Born an orthodox Jew in England, converted to reform Judaism in the U. S., Rabbi Henry Cohen passed his 75th birthday last month. Next month he will become the first U. S. rabbi to have served one Jewish congregation - Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel-for 50 years. Last week in Galveston four judges, Christian churchmen including a Catholic bishop, and 2,500 other people gathered to do honor to the South's greatest rabbi. Said Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson: "Henry Cohen is not merely our friend. In his humanness, he is a symbol of that democracy...