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Fiscal 1940 will not have been swaddled in Franklin Roosevelt's budget message until this week, but its pre-natal cries promised a worthy successor to fiscal 1939. the bouncingest budget ($8,985,000,000) of all. They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John...
>The President conferred with his Senatorial lieutenant, Jimmy Byrnes, about plans to revive Reorganization next session, indicated that he would probably take Senator Byrnes's advice to adopt the line of least resistance by splitting the measure into several Congressional bills.
Observers last week rated Senator Smith and Governor Johnston the likeliest qualifiers for a run-off primary, gave Senator Smith some chance of winning a majority on the first vote, next week. If he wins then or later, he will owe thanks to two friends of Franklin Roosevelt who refused...
He has voted against: pay cuts for Congress (1934); shelving the anti-lynching bill, barring Relief workers from political activity, the Byrnes sit-down strike amendment, increased income surtaxes, new processing taxes (1937); the second AAA (1938).
Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the...