Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the bill appropriating $89,820,000 to run the Departments of State, Labor and Justice. The Administration's Navy-building program appeared blocked, so the President agreed to cut down on it if Congress would at least authorize building 25 cruisers (see p. 9). Fresh warnings emanated from the White House on tax-cutting, tariff-tampering, flood control, shipping policy, etc., etc. Congress had sat long and done little. Should it become extravagant to make up for lost time, vetoes might ensue...
...Passed a bill to allow heads of government departments to settle tort claims up to $5,000 without bothering Congress; sent it to the Senate...
Looking eastward, residents of the Mississippi Basin saw another spectacle, at Washington. After months of wrangling, a committee of the House last week reported a flood-control measure to Congress. But the smoke of conflict, instead of trailing away, was just beginning to thicken. "The greatest fight this session" instead of a national necessity was what Congress was prepared to supply...
...political theorizing, indulged in last week at an American Bankers' Association banquet, by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank's boldly rational suggestion was that Congressional lobbyists should be recognized, dignified, legalized and set up as a Third House of Congress-"House of Technologists" was the best name he could think of at the moment. Let business, finance, agriculture, labor, transportation, education, etc., etc., elect their own variously specialized representatives to such a Third House, said Dr. Frank, so that the lines of economic force in the U. S., which no longer parallel what...
...kind of debaters that Congress has to listen to at public bill hearings seldom listen themselves to debaters on the other side. They are emotionalists. For example, a professor of history at Swarthmore) College, Dr. William I. Hull, representing the World Alliance for International Friendship and the Church Peace Union, made a long pacifist speech to the Committee. When he had finished he was asked...