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...sums out of the President's hands, 2) other Senate amendments to specify roadwork projected in Georgia and Alabama, and to authorize payment of the highest prevailing wage in any locality for the work to be given the unemployed. Then up rose Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah crying: "For God's sake, get something done to feed the people who are hungry!" Public and Press were making themselves heard in a like vein. Besides, Administration leaders in Congress threatened not to allow the customary two-weeks adjournment for Christmas and New Year...
...week: the House bill to "give $150,000,000 more to the Federal Farm Board, thus tacitly approving its wheat-market operations. Such operations had been approved and called a success by a meeting of farm-organization heads and agricultural legislators before Congress convened. Despite broad objections by Senator Borah, who wants the export debenture form of farm aid, and specific objections by Senators Black and Tydings, who tried to stop the Board's trading in commodity futures and on margin, the bill was rammed through before the holiday adjournment, went to the President...
...welcome in the Senate at this short and crowded session because the parliamentary situation there was already complicated enough without them. No Republican, no Democrat rushed forth to champion them. They were shoved aside into the depths of the Foreign Relations Committee whence they would emerge, according to Chairman Borah, a Court foe, some time after the Christmas recess. Even the Court's best Democratic friend, Virginia's Swanson, frankly urged postponement until the 72nd Congress, while its foes-estimated at 20 and led by California's "irreconcilable" Johnson-threatened protracted warfare to prevent its consideration...
With the opening of Congress, the Liberal Club has sent telegrams to Senator William E. Borah and to Claude A. Swanson, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging action on the World Court protocols...
...think that many members of Congress will prefer a special session of Congress to joining the army of unemployed,'' grunted Insurgent Senator Borah last week. He was being facetious, but he was touching upon the precise reason why Congressmen have refused five times in the past decade to pass the resolution of Senator Norris to abolish "lame duck" sessions. Congressmen are, more tenaciously than almost any other class of professional men, jobholders. That is why those whose states are losing seats fought so bitterly, and may fight again, the already long-delayed Reapportionment of the House...