Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the first session of the 75th Congress adjourned last August, Franklin Roosevelt pointedly omitted to thank the members for their 229 days of work. They had killed his Supreme Court bill. They had left undone many things he thought they ought to have done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress...
Railroads. Because Labor insisted that the railroad industry give up its demand for a 15% wage cut if a bill for railroad relief was allowed to pass Congress, the session closed without anything being done for the railroads. Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
...June 1, had a good chance of passing $40,000,000,000 by this time next year, an increase of $20,000,000,000 since Franklin Roosevelt took office. Spending was by all odds the biggest job performed by the 75th Congress. Its other work done: Wages 6 Hours, To give the President his pet piece of legislation. Congress last week passed a compromise bill (TIME, June 20) fixing minimum wages at 25^ an hour, maximum hours at 44 a week, providing for a 40^-40-hour standard after seven years, with flexible provisions mak-ing it tolerable...
...golf, two loos at trapshooting, two 300s at bowling, it is the pinnacle of U. S. sporting performance. Only nine pitchers in the long history of major-league baseball had ever succeeded in getting two no-hit, no-run games in a lifetime. No one had ever done it twice in one season. Young Vander Meer, in his first full year in the major leagues, had done it twice within five days...
...London, an exhibition of contemporary U. S. painters that included the work of Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, Peggy Bacon, left English critics with their bowlers clamped firmly on their heads. Declaring that half the paintings might have been done "by devoted but not very skilful admirers of contemporary French art," critics found the remainder honest but uneven, likened their effect to the blare of trombones...