Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a President whose good humor is normally as unflagging as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's exhibits the least touch of snappishness, it is major news. Last week, reporters lost no time in guessing that Franklin Roosevelt had finally stopped trying to conceal his serious concern about Depression. Right or wrong, the reporters' guess was reasonable. The Gainesville speech had touched off a selling wave that sent the stock market to new lows. Other business indices showed few signs of improvement...
...report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed a plan proposed by his old adversary, Virginia's Carter Glass, to enlarge the loaning facilities of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In constant touch with Washington by telephone, the President was rewarded finally by a cheering piece of news; that, despite...
Shouted at a packed Senate Chamber by Massachusetts' David Walsh, these violent words week were the final major volley of the bitterest political fight of 1938-against Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the executive department of the Federal Government. After portly Mr. Walsh had completed his tirade, echoed only a shade less vehemently by Senators Tydings, Vandenberg and Borah, the Reorganization Bill came to its two final votes...
...auditing functions by abolishing the Comptroller General who has previously done both, giving the first half of his job to the Director of the Budget, the second to a newly created Auditor General; 4) sets up a Department of Welfare; 5) empowers the President to hire six administrative assistants. Major basis for the claim that Reorganization would give the President dictatorial authority lay in the wording of Title I, whereby Congressional disapproval of any of his proposed changes in Government agencies must be made within 60 days and is still subject to Presidential veto, which can be overridden only...
...draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy than its oil fields. Thirteen percent of the Government's revenues have come from the silver industry. Silver is a major factor in its currency and in its foreign exchange. And if Mexico tries to dump its silver directly on the world market, Secretary Morgenthau can simply pull his plug...