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Report. There are currently about 12,870,000 U. S. unemployed. On relief are more than 17,314,000. By April 1 approximately 14% of the nation's population were beneficiaries of public aid of one kind or another. These facts, included last week in a preliminary report by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

TIME (April 4) is in error in stating Senator Byrnes of South Carolina "helped conduct the fight against the Court Plan." It was just the other way around. He done his little best to help pass the bill. "South Carolina's Byrnes" is noted for his subserviency to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

South Carolina's Byrnes, whose resistance to President Roosevelt's Court Plan was largely passive, did vote to recommit it to the Judiciary Committee, July 22, 1937.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

As drafted by South Carolina's Byrnes -who helped conduct the fight against the Court Plan-the Reorganization Bill 1) empowers the President to reshuffle any or all of the 100-odd agencies under the executive branch; 2) calls for a single Civil Service Administrator instead of a three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ninth-Inning Rally | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

"We've got the votes," said South Carolina's Byrnes. "The bill will pass." That the roll call which followed these contradictory claims proved Byrnes right and Clark wrong did not mean that the Reorganization Bill's difficulties were completely over. From the Senate it goes not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ninth-Inning Rally | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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