Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more loyal to King George than to the spirit of America. There is Hoover, the radical--the determined engineer, if you would remember, who would turn industry upside down. It has now been noted that Hoover has placed no radical plans for the reorganization of industry before Congress; that he is about as resolute and as enthusiastic a defender of the American capitalist scene; and that he aims to coax rather than to compel the business men with whom he deals...
Suppose, as a test of national issues, we take the chief issues presented to Congress by the President in his last two messages. Those issues are: 1. Tax reduction. 2. Water power, as represented at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. 3. National defense. 4. Tariff. 5. Industrial relations. 6. Prohibition. 7. Farm relief. 8. Reorganization of the Government. 9. Foreign policy...
...Water power. \ Smith would break sharply with Mr. Coolidge, the Republican party, any conceivable nominee of the Republican party, and three fourths of his own docile party in Congress on this issue. Water power is one of Smith's major intersts and major issues. As safely as anything can be predicted of him as President, he would demand government operation of the power plants at Muscle Shoals and, if they are built, at Boulder...
...Lobbying as defined and understood in this act shall consist of any effort to influence the action of Congress upon any matter coming before it, whether . . . by distributing literature, appearing before committee . . . or seeking to interview individual members...
Resolutions drawn up by N. E. A. included: 1) a demand that Congress pass the Curtis-Reed bill creating a Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet; 2) a condemnation of all political interference with school superintendents...