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...Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
...First objective of the Republicans' drive to discontinue "emergency" powers conferred upon President Roosevelt since 1933 was to defeat a bill continuing the life of Reconstruction Finance Corp. (Author: Herbert Hoover. Chairman: Jesse Jones) from next June 30 to June 30, 1941. After House Republicans had failed to beat the bill, in the Senate Michigan's Vandenberg precipitated hot debate by objecting to an increase of $20,000,000 in the capital of Disaster Loan Corp. (RFC offshoot). At length a clerk informed the sheepish Senate that it had already settled that issue when it passed...
...debts to the U. S. (i.e., nearly all of Europe) to borrow any more U. S. money, and the drafters of the 1937 Neutrality Act which prohibits sales to belligerents other than on a dockside cash & carry basis. This camp also includes such public spokesmen as Mr. Herbert Hoover, Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who is suspicious of all foreigners, and Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina who wears a feather in his hat to show that he is against all isms but Americanism...
Herbert Clark Hoover, hands in pockets, stomach to the fore, obviously loving his chance, warned the coming generation that the New Deal had mortgaged it. "It was Republicans," the nation's one living ex-President reiterated, who wrought reforms before Franklin Roosevelt, and would again. The "oxygen of opposition," he said, would save the people from their "rendezvous with debt...
Worse for Franklin Roosevelt than even the headlines in U. S. newspapers about his "new" foreign commitments was a speech in Chicago by the G.O. P.'s one living ex-President, Herbert Hoover. Said he: ". . . We are deluged with talk of war. . . . Amid these agitations President Roosevelt has now announced a new departure in foreign policies. . . . Our foreign policies in these major dimensions must be determined by the American people and the Congress, not by the President alone...