Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sparks began to fly last week when President Roosevelt let it be known that his Black-Connery wages & hours bill, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937, which has been publicly mulled by the Senate and House Labor Committees the past fortnight, was to pass substantially as written. Sidetracked thus was Senator Borah's proposed amendment to bar monopoly-made goods from interstate commerce. But as C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green agreed with each other and with Capital that the wages & hours fixing powers...
With this backhanded admission, the key log was removed from the jam that had kept Congress tied up since February. Several weeks ago, Congressional leaders recognized that it would be impossible to pass the bill for six new Supreme Court Justices, but the President refused to believe them. They gave out hints of compromise; Franklin Roosevelt refused to bat an eye. They deliberately delayed action on the bill hoping he would see his mistake. Finally, giving up hope of changing him, they began to plan on letting the Court bill die without action. When this was reported in the press...
These shots might as well have been saved, for the House was assembled this time to pass the bill that the Administration wanted and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in session until it did so. Taking the usual 40 minutes for each roll call, the House went doggedly on into the night before a crowded gallery.* With roll call after roll call, the earmarking amendments were knocked out one by one until, when the final vote was taken, not even the amendment to reduce Administrator Hopkins' salary remained...
...I.C.C. This bill emerged from committee last week and is soon to face a vote. Few sincerely airminded persons in the U. S. oppose it. The Air Line Pilots' Association unanimously voted in favor of I.C.C. jurisdiction; all the airlines devoutly hope the McCarran-Lea Bill will pass. They have, however, been slow to say so because they fear offending the potent Post Office, which also has a bill in Congress-the Mead Bill giving it even greater power over aviation than...
...Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year. The big producers are marshaling their forces to test its constitutionality in court. Last week North Dakota's Governor William A. Langer journeyed to Milwaukee to promise the Allied delegates that his State will bear the cost of the defense...