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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...
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...
...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...