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...could say nay to so unprecedented a patriotic gesture, but a number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian...
...measures that should still be passed; those others that could be allowed to die; those that must not be passed. Picked for passage: 1) The tariff bargaining bill, permitting the President to effect reciprocal tariff cuts with other nations; 2) the tax bill, although the President would like the coconut oil tax eliminated; 3) the law to extend the present temporary plan of bank deposit guarantee for another year-thereby putting off the more drastic "permanent" guarantee; 4) the Stock Exchange regulation bill, with teeth; 5) a bill to appropriate...
...bill with amendments (TIME, April 16), boosting surtaxes and estate taxes, adding an extra 10% to all income taxes payable next year; adding also Senator La Follette's proviso for making all income tax returns public records subject to inspection, and imposing a 3? per lb. tax on coconut oil in spite of the President's anxiety to have that tax omitted because of the heavy burden it would put on Philippine commerce with the U. S.; sent the bill to conference for a good long wrangle...
...looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...
...Subcommittee 36 of the Economic Committee last week unanimously resolved to promote a study of diseases of the coconut palm. Equally unimportant to most delegates seemed the sailing from England last week of No. 1 Brain Trusty Raymond Moley, whose visit was a fizzle from the Conference viewpoint since it turned out that he, hailed on his arrival in London as "Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty." did not in fact come empowered to speak with authority for President Roosevelt...