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...Stimson had the honor of being called as witness No. 1 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sitting to consider extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...
...Labor wanted it because it would have kept any national defense contract from being awarded any bidder who refused to bargain with his workers collectively. Although friendly Senators offered to limit its effects to firms actually convicted of violating the Wagner Act, the War Department and House committeemen would have none...
...President William Green had gone home to Coshocton, Ohio. So sure that nothing could happen was C. I. O.'s Lewis that he dared to get funny. No sooner had the President concluded than John Lewis handed to Franklin Roosevelt, Fanny Perkins and the Federation committeemen a mimeographed document, proposing that...
Seven Class Day Committeemen...
...Making ready to pass the House's $376,000,000 Army expansion bill, Senate committeemen raised from 5,500 planes to 6,000 the Army Air Corps' authorized maximum...