Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue for one year the reduced 3-2% interest rate on loans made to farmers by Federal land banks, and 2) to postpone the restoration to original levels of interest on farm mortgages held by the Government. With every Republican except Senator Vandenberg, and even such economizers as Senator Glass voting for the bill, the President's veto, already overidden by the House, was rejected 71 to 19, and the bill became law. ¶ Unanimously passed a bill previously approved by the House to repeal Section 213 of the Economy Act of 1933 which aimed to spread work...
...Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...Vote. Senator Adams of Colorado walked forward, tossed the first slip of white cardboard into Carter Glass's hat. Andrews was second, then Ashurst, then Bailey...
...Medford, Mass, received six Oriental gold and spun-glass bracelets, mailed to her from Bombay, India, by her aunt Amelia Earhart...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...