Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed something to restore its respectability after the political smears it acquired during Harry Hopkins' regime. The 130-hour provision, to make high-priced reliefers do more work for their money (though still not work anywhere near the legal maximum of 44 hours a week for privately employed workers), earned the approval of private employers. It promised to promote efficiency in WPA. That it now produced a fierce racket from all three big political wings of Labor was intensely embarrassing. It put Franklin Roosevelt, already bedeviled by an Isolationist bloc in the Senate, on a new and unexpected hotspot...
...four votes (43-to-39) in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt won his bitter fight with Congress over control of the country's' money. But the end of that fight only cleared the field for a mightier one: over control of the country's conduct in case of war overseas. As 34 diehard-isolationists massed in Senator Johnson's lair under the Capitol rotunda to sign a manifesto, lines formed for the longest tussle of all between the 32nd President and the 76th Congress...
...mediocrity, but a shrewd, hard-working careerist was Claude Swanson. A son of Reconstruction, he worked and borrowed his way through college and University of Virginia's law school. He made money as a country lawyer, ran a country newspaper on the side. After twelve years in the U. S. House he was made Governor by the greatest of all Virginia political bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years...
Spite and silver were the amalgam holding together last fortnight's Senate coalition of Republicans and hard-money Democrats which furiously filibustered the Monetary Bill beyond midnight of June 30 when Franklin Roosevelt's power to pare the dollar died and with it the Treasury's exchange stabilization fund. Silver and pressure were what Franklin Roosevelt used last week to split the coalition, pass the bill, revive both fund and power...
...higher subsidy for U. S.-mined silver was the bill's third provision. The Treasury's old price was 64.64? per oz. Silver Senators demanded as high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...