Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board the Potomac for a weekend cruise on Chesapeake Bay were members of the President's personal staff and Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton-whose name was presumably the last crossed off the President's list of possibilities before he nominated Hugo L. Black for the Supreme Court...
Traveling a rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little NRA" jumped: 1) the Senate Education and Labor Committee. 2) passive resistance by the A. F. of L., later modified, 3) the Senate by 56 to 28, 4) Congresswoman Mary T. Norton's House Labor Committee...
...roll of the 14 members of the Rules Committee readily reveals why Franklin Roosevelt's No. 2 bill was as dead as No. 1 (the Court Plan): Four are Republicans naturally opposed, five are Democrats from the South, whose industrial ambitions hinge on attractively cheap labor which the Black-Connery Bill aims...
...second 'carpetbag expedition' in the Southland, under the red banner of Soviet Russia . . . will be tolerated." He also accused Madam Perkins of treason. By last week Congressman Cox had slipped so far away from the New Deal that he was confusedly damning Supreme Court Nominee Hugo Black as an "anarchist...
...special meeting voted to rescind the rent reductions, require payment in full of the $200,000 concessions already granted. Be fore they could vote, old Francis Shunk Brown pointedly stalked from the room. Three days later, looking more than ever like a Philadelphia lawyer in a wrinkled black alpaca coat, brown trousers and shoestring tie, Mr. Brown showed up in the City Hall courtroom where the Shapiro committee was sitting. He stormed...