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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Supreme Court held its final sitting for the 1934-35 term, adjourned for the summer. In the old Senate Chamber just off the Capitol rotunda where it has sat since 1859, it concluded its year's work by handing down a few inconsequential opinions, admitting a flock of freshmen attorneys to practice...
...White House clerks to carry back to Congress. Of these vetoes only 49 have been overridden by a cantankerous House & Senate.* Last week President Roosevelt tossed the custom of the country out the window and made a breezy bit of history by carrying Veto No. 675 up to the Capitol in person and making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill...
Thirty-six Senatorial votes-three more than necessary-had long since been counted to sustain the veto and the margin of error in this calculation was conceded to be very small. Nevertheless, up to the Capitol, day after the House vote, marched Postmaster General Farley to lunch with Majority Leader Robinson, help hold the Administration lines. With him went ex-Representative Charles F. West, now Presidential contact-man, and in the cloak rooms of the Senate they and Whip Harrison proceeded to buttonhole doubtful members. Only one clear victory did they gain: New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, successor...
Last week in Washington, 1,500 businessmen descended on the Capitol in a fleet of taxicabs to tell Congressmen that they must vote for a two-year extension of NRA. In Manhattan William Green of the A. F. of L. roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a general strike if Congress did not vote a two-year extension of NRA. At the White House Franklin Roosevelt came out strongly for two more years for NRA. The Ways & Means Committee of the House obediently prepared to report a bill for NRA extension. And the Supreme Court knocked...
...usual, bobbed up before the House Military Affairs Committee to ask for a few additional small favors. Two years ago Congress gave the New Deal everything it wanted just for the joy of giving. Now Federal agencies like NRA, AAA or TVA are lucky to get grudging crusts on Capitol Hill. Thus it was no great surprise when an ungenerous House Committee last week turned and snarled at TVA's requests for several amendments to its basic act. One amendment would increase TVA's right to issue bonds, guaranteed in principal and interest by the U. S., from...