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...mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. The occasion was his 75th birthday...
...When the 75th Congress met for the first time last January, the country was comparatively prosperous, Franklin Roosevelt had just been resoundingly endorsed at the polls and the New Deal had a huge Democratic majority in both houses...
Under very different auspices the 75th Congress reconvened in a Special Session last week, ostensibly to enact the ambitious program outlined by the President in his fireside chat six weeks ago. New Deal ranks in Congress, split by the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last winter, were still sharply divided. The President's popularity, despite his triumphal tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major...
...first session, the 75th Congress' most important achievement was the negative one of defeating the President's Court plan. What it would accomplish in its less promising second session was still unpredictable last week but two things at least looked certain. One was that under the stimulus of Recession, Congress was likely to show an independence toward the White House unprecedented since 1933. The other was that Vice President John Nance Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Brockman Bankhead in the House were going to have their hands full making Congress do much of anything before...
...mother's house he gave a press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours legislation, reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, regional planning. The President promised his final decision on an extra session probably within a week. In Washington three days later, he announced that he would make the first...