Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida 150 years ago. General Andrew Jackson, first U. S. Governor of the Territory of Florida, was enthusiastic over the canal idea. President John Quincy Adams, Jackson's political rival, went so far as to have Army engineers survey a route. Generations passed and in 1930 Florida Congressmen got a bill passed for more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan, then to PWA, finally to WPA, all without success until...
...Board can keep this momentum Bunder control, because many of the inflationary threats lie not upon the records in its rented quarters across from the Treasury but in the cloak rooms of the Capitol. Last week inflationary sentiment in Congress burned brighter than at any time since 1933. Congressmen hate the thought of voting taxes in an election year. Led by Oklahoma's Thomas in the Senate and Texas' Patman in the House, inflationists and silverites loudly demanded new currency by the billion to pay the Government's bills. Schemes ranged from...
...Deal's new plan for agriculture: crop control through soil conservation (TIME, Jan. 20). While AAA's lawyers were busy trying to draft a workable law, trouble was brewing at the Capitol. Farm leaders who rubber-stamped the New Deal's idea were already calling on Congressmen to advocate other proposals. One group wanted to take 30% of customs receipts to subsidize exports. Another group advocated guaranteeing farmers their cost of production. A third group demanded enactment of the domestic allotment plan; a fourth, export debentures, higher agricultural tariffs, repeal of the reciprocal trade treaty...
...unscrupulous money changers who stood indicted in the court of public opinion. ... I said that they had admitted their failure and had abdicated. . "Abdicated? Yes, in 1933, but now with the passing of danger they forget their damaging admissions and withdraw their abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer. . . . They offer. . . . They seek-let me put it that way," he interjected, covering up his slip. "They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round...
...temporary Neutrality Act expires on Feb. 29 and a permanent act must be passed. There is little or no Washington agreement on the terms of such long-range legislation. The temper of returning Congressmen was last week decidedly in favor of fixing by law what the U. S. should do in case of a war abroad, namely to forbid export of arms and materials to all warring nations alike. The State Department felt acutely that executive discretion will be necessary lest the U. S. by indiscriminate embargoes put weaker nations at such a disadvantage that international bullies should be encouraged...