Word: adjournment
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Sticking cigaret after cigaret in his long holder, the President settled down to await the Congressional pleasure. Forty-eight hours later that pleasure was to adjourn, after giving him more social legislation than he had asked for. The railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that...
...when it shall appear in the public interest"; 3) to subpoena documents and witnesses; 4) to issue orders and regulations, disobedience of which would subject any person to a $1,000 fine or a year in jail. Day before the steel strike was due to break and Congress to adjourn, the measure was introduced in House and Senate. Only serious opposition came from Progressives who wanted the Wagner bill. They were placated by a declaration that the amendment was not to be construed as denying Labor's right to strike. House and Senate quickly voted aye and the Green...
...plan dropped. Agreement was then reached on three points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work of the Conference shall proceed "without prejudice to private conversations on which the governments will desire to enter in order to facilitate the attainment of final success by the return of Germany...
...prevent any measure from being brought up which they do not desire; 2) prevent any amendment from being offered to bills before the House; 3) limit debate and force a vote on any measure within 40 minutes. Object: to finish the Administration's legislative program and adjourn by this week or next...
...started in the House. When only nine of the necessary 145 signatures were lacking, House leaders got together, did a parliamentary trick. They reported the bill favorably from the Banking & Currency Committee. On the crowded calendar of the House the bill was not likely to get consideration before adjournment unless the Rules Committee gave it a favored status. To force the Rules Committee to do so would require another petition and under the rules the bill could not be brought up until the second Monday in May (May 14, too close to expected adjournment for any likelihood of passage). Undeterred...