Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pensions are customarily granted widows of U. S. Presidents and Vice Presidents by special act of Congress. Mrs. Roosevelt receives a $5,000 pension. The $5,000 pension bill for Mrs. Marshall, passed by the Senate, is now pending in the louse. No pension has been voted Mrs. Wilson, who, wealthy, has asked that none )e given...
...Florida as the next President bade the Senate Finance Committee Chairman farewell and sent him back to Washington as a special emissary. For three days they had talked, these two, the Utah Senator's thin querulous voice rising in vain pleadings for an early special session of Congress, for a general tariff revision. Mr. Hoover shook his round head. Many things had been made firmly clear and the parting handshake sealed all conclusions...
...Grundy and the tariff boosters had their shoulders to the wheel. Congress itself seemed ready to give it a spin?and then Mr. Smoot was converted in Miami. Small wonder if Mr. Grundy had food for thought. Small wonder if Mr. Hoover too had food for thought. Could he disgruntle Mr. Grundy?the Mr. Grundy who raised for the Republicans...
...next President with $250,000 to make a law enforcement survey. In the basement bargaining to follow, the House conferees might possibly accept these amendments provided the Senate backed down on its $24,000,000 dry fund. In the event of a deadlock, in conference, with neither branch of Congress receding, the entire $84,000,000 Deficiency bill would fail of passage...
...point of order cut Mr. Harris short. One house of Congress may not discuss the other critically...