Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said last week: "President Roosevelt's protest to the Soviet Government about the activities of the Congress was one of the most stupid things he could have done. . . . Roosevelt is not a Fascist but if he doesn't oppose Fascism the Fascists will eat him up. ... All of the bloc gathered around Roosevelt is headed toward Fascism...
...evening last week reporters dawdled in the press box of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies while on the floor the majority bloc of President Cardenas' deputies steamrollered its program ruthlessly forward against the agitated but ineffective shouts of minority delegates. Up for discussion was a minority proposal to grant a 5,000-peso bonus ($1,400) to each & every member of Congress, a proposal which President Cardenas had vetoed week before, despite the fact that Mexican custom sanctions such "tips" to obedient legislators. When the majority deputies sternly resisted this tempting bait, voted it down, hell suddenly broke...
...general scandal that would discredit us in our determination not to waste public money in bonuses. . . . This sad incident is evidence that the majority of Mexico's legislators are solidly behind our leader." Next day 17 suspected Deputies were voted out of their seats by the majority bloc, threatened with criminal procedure, a move which practically wiped out the right wing minority that started the shooting. While humble Mexicans celebrated their 125th independence day. Congress prepared to swear in 19 new Deputies replacing the 17 expelled, the two slain...
Chairman McReynolds took with him also a prime trading point to force the Senate peacemen to accept the President's compromise. Ardently did he and a majority of the House desire to lay down an absolute embargo on loans & credits to warring nations. Except for the Nye-Clark bloc, the Senate was flatly opposed to such action. Therefore, threatened Chairman McReynolds, let the Senate peacemen accept the President's compromise or he would write a loans & credits embargo into their resolution, thus killing off neutrality legislation at this session...
...appease the silver bloc, Finance Chairman Harrison had accepted Senator McCarran's amendment turning silver back to the speculators (see p. 13). To save time he had promised to "take along to conference" a swarm of other, minor amendments. By 40 to 39 the Senate had approved Senator Borah's amendment lifting tax exemption from future issues of Federal securities. Otherwise the Finance Committee's bill had been passed intact. Bob La Follette's politically preposterous notion that the bill should be turned into a respectable revenue raiser by taxing the "little fellow" had been shrugged...