Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful roll-call got under way, Congressmen realized that the debate had been much ado about nothing. The motion to recommit the bill was swamped, the motion to pass it carried...
...Senate floor it was agreed that the bill should be rewritten in conference. Meanwhile, Speaker Bankhead deferred naming the House conferees until this week. Thus it was assured that the compromise reached in conference should be dumped back into the House and Senate just before adjournment, when Congressmen will be too tired to fight hard or argue long...
...Roman Catholic) schools, it is opposed by Catholicophobes, led by Columbia University's Professor George Drayton Strayer. Meanwhile, to drive the bill out of the hostile House committee, the American Federation of Teachers and Progressive Education Association held a national conference in Washington, brought together college presidents, educators, Congressmen and 25 labor and farm organizations, which unanimously endorsed the bill. United in demanding its passage were A. F. of L., C. I. O., the railroad brotherhoods. Said A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen: "The Harrison-Fletcher Bill is must legislation...
Whenever weary Congress adjourns, most of its members will hotfoot for home not only for vacation but also to stump their bailiwicks for reelection. With Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt as vocal as ever, wives of Congressmen have apparently begun to feel they should follow her example. This week, despite elaborate attempts at secrecy, it leaked out that a number of them have been taking elocution lessons so they will be ready when asked to say a few words "back home." Conducted by Mrs. Hugh Butler, long a teacher of public speaking at George Washington University, the classes have been held weekly...
...bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought to limit the size. We ought to know...