Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever difficult problems are before Congress the President is apt to call Congressmen to the White House to confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
...after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough pro-President to give Congressmen pause. Asked why he had suddenly canceled plans to introduce two non-controversial items of the President's program in a separate bill, Chairman Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee spoke the troubled mind of many another Congressman: "The visibility is poor, it's foggy, the barometer...
...note describing its author as having the "reputation of being one of the President's close advisers," it went on to state the obvious fact that the conservative Democrats in Congress are no New Dealers and sooner or later must break with the New Deal. When Southern Congressmen grew angry, the President had to put his indiscreet adviser in his place...
Nervous shock. As always in one of his major acts-and this was his biggest yet-Franklin Roosevelt had taken this country completely by surprise. Flabbergasted Congressmen stumbled hastily into the legislative chambers to hear the message read as rumors of its contents flew. News-tickers flashed it to the floors of stock exchanges and stockmarket prices took a swift tumble. It spread in banner headlines across every newspaper. Presently it appeared that the U. S. was not .only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that...
...rains the White House lawn really needed to be mowed in January. Winter rains 600 miles to the west had a bigger influence on Washington politics. The Ohio-Mississippi flood had brought to the Capital an emergency atmosphere not unlike that of the early months of the New Deal. Congressmen once more hungered for Federal aid and Franklin Roosevelt resumed the prestige cf the Great White Father to whom all must appeal...