Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hour Week. Fortnight ago the President told the 3.500 members of industry's code authorities that he was opposed to arbitrary flat reduction of the work week for all industry. Yet Congressmen are much inclined to favor a bill for a 30-hour week. If it were passed allowing no exceptions the President would veto it. If it were passed allowing him wide discretion in its application, he might accept...
Thus did President Roosevelt, shocked and grieved by the death list of Army pilots and hounded by Republican Congressmen charging "legalized murder," retrace one step on his politically unfortunate course on the airmail situation. General Foulois answered by suspending all Army mail service for a few days while he and his aides conferred with Post Office officials on elimination of routes and schedules. Tentatively they planned to fly about 40% of the mileage formerly covered by private operators. A House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President...
When thirty Negro students from Howard University in Washington were refused entrance Saturday to the Congressional dining rooms, the country was treated to a farce on democracy: If these dining rooms were reserved exclusively for Congressmen, and not open to the general public, the refusal might have been warranted. It was based solely on a ruling by the congressional committee in charge, excluding negroes from the dining rooms. Not only is this ruling manifestly unfair to Representative Oscar DePriest, colored Congressman from Illinois, it again tramples in the dust the American principle of equal rights...
...guaranteed two months ago: 2) ordered the Census Bureau to tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis for reapportionment for the State Legislature (a blow at Tammany) ; 3)announced that he would favor a law to prevent party officials, government officers and Congressmen from lobbying for government contracts, and also to outlaw professional lobbyists from similar employment...
Republican Congressmen, old hands at tariff dealings, were not swayed by the President's persuasion. Immediately they raised a chorus of condemnation, seized the bill as a partisan issue. Senator McNary cried out that it was another Article X of the League of Nations. House Leader Snell called it "the most outrageous demand for authority ever voiced by any Executive in the history of this country." Even Senator Borah found himself shoulder to shoulder with Old Guardsmen when he declared that the bill was a demand that the Senate give up its treaty-making powers...