Word: 76th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...76th Congress and the 32nd President last week really got to grips once more and both were sore-almost as sore as they were two years ago over the Supreme Court. What they fought about this time was the bill to extend the President's power over money, but what they were principally sore at was each other...
Forthwith the farm bill emerged from conference shorn of only $13,000,000 of the Senate's whopping additions. With still more padding in prospect, it totaled $1,205,000,000-a record-and preserved its status as the bill that killed Economy in the 76th Congress...
Full worthy of this memorial were the events which the 76th Congress thus celebrated. The ist Congress met on March 4, 1789. Because of the conditions of the roads, and the casualness of Congressmen, a quorum of both Houses could not be mustered until April 6. Their meeting place was Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, Manhattan (pop. 30,000). President-elect George Washington did not arrive until April 23, was inaugurated April 30. Before the inaugural, Vice President John Adams, having a great regard for ceremony but no precedent to go on, was completely flummoxed. Said...
...76th Congress last week again resembled a desultory grab bag from which some members were trying to extract prizes, personal or political, while other members strove for distinction by staying their hands...
...only putting it mildly. They knew that the PUB† era is here to stay as long as any member of Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet can foretell, and they knew that Mr. Morgenthau's speech was only the polite introduction of an act which the Economy-breathing 76th Congress will presently have to perform willy-nilly: raising the legal limit of the national debt from $45,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000 (or beyond...