Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buxom Mrs. Norton, no tearful, bumbling matron but a toughened politician of Mayor Frank Hague's hard-boiled Jersey City school, well knew what was about to happen. For while her New Deal colleague, ancient Adolph Sabath of Illinois, sat at the head of the long billiard-baized table as Rules Chairman, all eyes watched the committee's real overseer, Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia, head hatchet-man of the conservatives...
...Norton repeated her plea of many months: that the committee either grant an out-&-out "gag" rule to her New-Deal-approved amendments to the wage-hour law when they reached the House floor, or grant no rule at all. Chairlady Norton, whose crisp black (undyed) hair belies by 20 years her age (64), feared the committee would grant her only an "open" rule. That would let Graham Barden of North Carolina substitute on the House floor his own wage-hour amendments, which are anathema to the New Deal. Mr. Barden's amendments would take 2,000,000 workers...
...verbal slugging, scrambling and hell-raising, most people forgot that the entire House situation was only shadowboxing, since the Senate could not and would not even begin action on wage-hour legislation at this session. But the intensity of the fight revealed more clearly than ever the New Deal's slipping grip on Capitol Hill...
...increase in the loan authorization of the Export-Import Bank, then passed it, sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood at $1,615,000,000. California's bulky oldtimer, Hiram Johnson, took the floor to characterize the New Deal's spending philosophy as that of the cow-camp cook: "Come and get it! Come...
...demand that Wall Street set up brokerage banks to hold all the cash and securities of brokers' customers, the New York Stock Exchange last fortnight set up a four-man committee to formulate a plan. Chosen to head it last week was Roswell Magill, father of the New Deal's 1938 Tax Bill, Under Secretary of the Treasury from early 1937 till last year when he resigned to return to his Manhattan law practice and Columbia teaching...