Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later the bill that Congressional tax experts have been working on since last autumn catapulted through the Senate without a record vote...
This week, as he promised, Franklin Roosevelt finally sent his recommendations to Congress. Possibly piqued by Congressional balking of his Reorganization Bill (see p. 16), possibly too baffled by the railroad problem to have a solution, the President contented himself with sending along the Splawn report together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government...
Asked after his talk on "The Present Outlook" to comment on the recent appointment of Granville Hicks as Counselor in American History, Laski said, "Eighteen years ago I would have had something to say; I have nothing...
...Asked to comment on his ace, Barr said, "It was a high shot which I thought would bring the rain, but it just hit and plopped in. I thought it was pretty funny." He admitted he would like to join the hole-in-one golfer's club...
While Governor Hurley, vetoer of the Oath Law, refused to comment last night, Thomas Dorgan, ex-assemblyman and sponsor of the bill stated: "My feeling on matters of this character have been expressed by me so many times in the past that further comment is unnecessary...