Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through Secretary of Labor Perkins the President last week gave his approval "in principle" to Federal limitations of working hours. What bothered him most was the question of the constitutionality of such a proposal. Marching to the Capitol, Secretary Perkins appeared before the House Labor Committee, picked two flaws in its 30-hour bill. She favored a less rigid measure which would permit her department to flex working hours between 30 and 40 per week, to meet different conditions in different industries. In the provision barring imports from countries with longer work weeks than...
...steps of the Minnesota State Capitol last week marched several hundred bonuseers, destitute farmers, city jobless and professional relief seekers. Down the steps to greet them marched big bluff Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson, only Farmer-Labor Governor in the land. The State Senate, preponderantly conservative, was still mulling over the Olson relief program. The theme of the marchers' plea was: "Tax the rich to feed the poor...
...night last week five men filed softly into the White House and sat down with President Roosevelt for a secret talk. They were his legislative lieutenants at the Capitol-Vice President Garner, Speaker Rainey, Senate Leader Robinson, House Leader Byrns and Senator Pat Harrison. There had been in the month past many such night conferences at the White House whence participants had returned to Congress with their Presidential orders. But this one was different. The five Democrats emerged with their lips sealed. Not until the next day did the meeting become generally known and even then other Senators and Representatives...
...true temper of Congress was not to be accurately judged by such backstage talk. There were some hurt prides in House and Senate but the President still held the whip hand over the Capitol. The pressure of public opinion was as strong as ever in his favor. Party patronage had yet to be distributed in a big way. The swift tempo of the first few weeks was over with the passage of emergency legislation but the change in Congressional pace did not signify a change in spirit. Most observers were agreed that the President could get anything he wanted throughout...
...tampering of the bill's fundamentals. He pointed to the calendar. He harped on the necessity for speedy action. He came closer to cracking the Party whip than at any time since he entered the White House. The Senators trudged glumly back to the Capitol and three days later reported the bill to the Senate. Typical of the opposition there awaiting it was Senator Reed's: "It'll be ripped to pieces! I can't permit the passage of such legislation! If the people of Pennsylvania knew what its passage would mean, they'd riot...