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...much suspicion. His particular jurisdiction is seafaring men, which he claims by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring up a first-class...
...Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill. The Senators complained that their impersonators on the stage called forth boos & hisses. As their remarks came straight out of the Congressional Record, they admitted they had not been misquoted, but insisted they were not quoted fairly. In the play Byrd and Tydings seek to amend the bill, restricting costs to a top $4,000-per-family unit. In Congress the bill was amended, became law with a top $5,000-per-family unit...
Accordingly, last week the anti-lynching filibuster was interrupted to allow the Senate to pass its first real piece of business this session-a bill to amend the 1934 Housing Act. Mortgages were to be guaranteed up to 90%, interest was reduced to 5% and building of multiple dwellings for investment was encouraged. Pointedly omitted was the specification that prevailing local wages must be paid on the jobs. Pointedly, handsome young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge-another great friend of Labor-had proposed it, but in the end the Senate adopted (42-40) the amendment without the prevailing wage clause...
Introduced by Indiana's Representative Louis Leon Ludlow, it sought to amend the U. S. Constitution to make it illegal for Congress to declare war except in the case of armed invasion. According to the Ludlow proposal, at other times "the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of votes cast in a nationwide referendum...
...Passed, 324-to-23, without notable amendment, a bill embodying the President's plan to amend the National Housing Act (TIME...