Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate problem of jockeying a Congress no longer his to ride, Franklin Roosevelt last week addressed himself with characteristic adroitness. He delivered to it a stirring Annual Message which made national defense the paramount purpose of the day. He followed his request for a major controversial item of expense-Relief-with a Budget Message which contained an uncontroversial new national defense figure-only $500,000,000 extra instead of the billion many observers had expected. This brought him to his first two problems...
...second Congressional problem faced the President hard upon the first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies...
With these major changes in the President's fiscal philosophy as a background, the President's budget supplied details for the immediate future...
...plan to hold reviews of the major Freshman courses, as a continuance of last year's custom, in the Union," said Spaeth. "Some will probably be completed before January 19, and the remainder during the examination period. A sub-committee has already been appointed to enlist the aid of the heads of the various courses in recommending instructors...
THIS volume should attract attention if only for the reason that it contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...