Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When U. S. Vice President Garner, Secretary of War Dern, Speaker of the House Byrns and a large delegation of Congressmen and Senators assemble in Manila for the Commonwealth's inaugural, they will be ushering into old, Spanish-built Malacanan Palace the first Filipino to occupy that seat of government. For brown men it will be a great triumph to see the Governor General moved out of the palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will...
...people in the whole State of Rhode Island and these people cannot be kept hungry. President Roosevelt was given a vote of confidence in the 1934 general election when an overwhelming majority of Democrats were elected to the various Federal and State offices. During that same election, Republican Congressmen were elected from California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and many other States. Nobody made the preposterous suggestion at that time that the New Deal was waning because a Republican Congressman was elected in California. Why this sudden change of thought? Maybe the reactionary, diehard, GOP Tories expect us to carry...
...last day" came. Mr. Roosevelt spent a large part of it preparing a radio speech to the Young Democrats in Milwaukee (see p. 10); saw a delegation of Congressmen about some bills that were failing; signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting...
When adjournment was postponed the President could only go philosophically to bed. Sunday morning he awoke without the light-hearted feeling he had a right to expect. Instead of voyaging down the Potomac on the Sequoia he stayed at home talking with upset Congressmen by telephone. On Monday, two conferences with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee having failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this...
That night over a nationwide hook-up Senators. Congressmen, aviation and radio celebrities joined in a memorial broadcast to two of Oklahoma's favorite sons. Big, tough Colonel Roscoe Turner wept into the microphone. In Fairbanks Author Rex Beach said: "This is the blackest day Alaska has known." In Wall Street the stock of Fox Films, which had just agreed to pay Will Rogers $8,000 a week, sold off 1 1/4 points...