Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire California Congressional Delegation, 11 Democrats and 9 Republicans, signed a letter to President Roosevelt advising him that they were "vigorously opposed" to the proposed plan for opening the gates to Asiatic immigration, and within a few days thereafter the Delegations from Washington and Oregon signed a similar letter. Congressmen from three States do not unanimously take such action when they are facing re-election unless they know absolutely that the overwhelming sentiment in their respective communities approves the stand taken. The same elements which initiated this movement in California have sought also to induce the President's Cabinet...
...bring up 1) a bill for Government refinancing of all farm mortgages, 2) a bill to impose a 30-hour week on industry, 3) a bill to impose a 6-hour day on the railroads, 4) a bill to pay in full the depositors of all closed banks. Congressmen up for re-election were sorely tempted to pass all of them. Yet any one of them would be embarrassing to the Administration. Moreover, the longer Congress stayed in session the more likely was it that one or more of those bills could be forced to a vote. Therefore in conference...
...President and Mrs. Roosevelt held a formal dinner for Congressmen, admirals, generals, Washington socialites. Special guests at the dinner were Governor and Mrs. Pinchot of Pennsylvania who flew to Washington for the occasion, stayed overnight at the White House...
...auditorium were models of homesteads, samples of co-operative-made furniture, rugs, tools, quilts, etc. Before he left the White House the President had not intended to make a speech to a heterogeneous audience which included three Cabinet members, Bernard Baruch, the Federal Administrator of Relief, some Congressmen. Mrs. Roosevelt and many a humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium stage he had been so carried away by what he called "my pet children" that he had spent half an hour, leaning over the back of a chair and talking spontaneously. Though the White House...
...Borah bill was not passed that day nor was it likely to pass any other day soon, principally because lawyer-Congressmen control a majority of House and Senate...