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...course of signing a $132,732,000 supply bill for the Department of the Interior, the President took note of a provision allotting the maximum $14,483,000 appropriation authorized for Federal aid to vocational education under the George-Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10,000,000 more than the President recommended in his budget message. It was also contrary to the recommendations of a special advisory committee headed by University of Chicago's Floyd Wesley Reeves, which the President appointed in September to sift pending educational legislation...
Lashed the President: "Much of the apparent demand for the immediate extension of the vocational education program under the George-Deen Act appears to have been stimulated by an active lobby of vocational teachers, supervisors and administrative officers . . . who are interested in the emoluments paid in part from Federal funds. . . . Evidence was read into the records . . . indicating that much of the impetus behind this movement emanated from a single, interested source...
With these words a skinny, bespectacled, schoolteacherish Georgian uprose last week in the House of Representatives. There was no objection, for the Honorable Braswell Drue Deen of Alma, who at this session has wangled from his party leaders a total of only eight minutes speaking time, had just been promised two minutes more by Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. Seizing time by the forelock Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session...
...hours later in the chamber above the restaurant, Representative Braswell Deen of Georgia tried to yank back into his seat another Democrat who had risen to vote with Republicans. Republican Ralph Eltse of California leaped across the aisle, flung Mr. Deen roughly into another seat. The Georgian rose and doubled up his fists. The Californian raised his hands defensively. The sergeant-at-arms scurried up the aisle and escorted Mr. Deen from the chamber...
...swore that their deal was a perfectly routine business transaction in which the bonds happened to be bought one week and sold the next. Said Mr. Van Sweringen: "These were open and shut purchases and sales of properties for cash. Now perfectly simple transactions are being construed as having Deen part of something claimed to have been done unlawfully...