Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress had given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since...
...rest of his new gear Franklin Roosevelt approved with gusto and dispatch-Spend-Lend, Wages & Hours, Deficiency Bill, etc. And during the week he added two executive devices of his own: 1) a raise in pay for all WPA workers in 13 Southern States; 2) a loosening of requirements in bank examinations...
...reported, in its last session the 75th Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money...
...bill to do precisely that is the joint pet project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...
...Effected regulation of over-the-counter security trading after three years' study by SEC. Passed by Congress just before adjournment was the Maloney bill granting SEC indirect control over 0-T-C trading through dealers' associations. The 9,000-odd active 0-T-C dealers are supposed to band together in geographical groups, draw up rules, elect officers and police themselves (all subject to SEC approval). If SEC decides that this has failed to prevent manipulation, excessive commissions, other unfair practices, it may step in. Though last week's act exempted dealers in Government, State and municipal...