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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...
...Cactus Jack likes the party that the President gives him every year. He attended in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938. Top members of Congress (Borah, Sheppard, McNary, Sabath, Rayburn, Boland, etc. etc.) were there. But local chit-chat artists were truly swamped two nights later when the Roosevelts entertained the 76th Congress, swamped by the new faces presented and their political implications. At the Congressional Reception, Jim Farley held court in a receiving line...
Many of the Congressional guests were visiting the White House for the first time that night. Many of them were to give Franklin Roosevelt a rough reception the very next evening when the 76th Congress chopped $150,000,000 off their host's Relief Bill...