Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the bills rushed through last week (see below), the session's chief accomplishments were the passage of a quasi-Neutrality Act, extending and amending the temporary acts of 1935 and 1936; an act to allow Supreme Court Justices to retire on full pay; a modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work...
...bill to limit crop production, produce an "ever-normal granary." In return for a promise to grant loans to Southern cotton growers, both House and Senate promised to make this the first item of business in their next session...
...bill to regulate wages and hours in U. S. industry and ban interstate shipment of goods produced by child labor. Passed by the Senate, the bill was reported favorably by the House Labor Committee but kept off the floor by a clique of Southern members of the Rules Committee. As chairman of Labor's Non-Partisan League, John L. Lewis of C. I. O. denounced the House Committee Wages & Hours tie-up, threatened to form a new party to effect social legislation if the Democratic Party failed to do so. William Green of A. F. of L., no real...
...bill to reorganize the administrative branch of the Government, create two new Cabinet departments, give the President six special assistants. The House passed separate bills, authorizing part of the program. The special Senate Committee reported favorably a somewhat different bill, but action was postponed till next session...
...regional conservation bill (parceling out the U. S. among "seven TVAs"). Sponsored by Nebraska's George W. Norris, it was dropped when he fell...