Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first session, the 75th Congress' most important achievement was the negative one of defeating the President's Court plan. What it would accomplish in its less promising second session was still unpredictable last week but two things at least looked certain. One was that under the stimulus of Recession, Congress was likely to show an independence toward the White House unprecedented since 1933. The other was that Vice President John Nance Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Brockman Bankhead in the House were going to have their hands full making Congress do much of anything before...
...purchasing power it had between 1909 and 1914. The Government would impose on every bushel sold over Department of Agriculture marketing quotas a penalty tax of 50% of its price-provided that, in a referendum before the scheme goes into effect, two-thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply is 10% above normal, corn when it reaches normal. For cotton and tobacco farmers, the bill provided both penalties for overproduction...
...Senate floor, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey used the immediate necessity of dealing with taxation as grounds for postponing consideration of antilynching. Said he of the undistributed profits tax, "Let's repeal it today. . . . Even the President says it isn't working. ..." Aware that any plan to do anything about taxation must originate in the House, enthusiastic Senator Bailey proposed that the Senate adopt a resolution "to repeal this tax just as soon as we get something from the House to which we can attach a repealer...
...them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness to face economic facts. Chairman Kennedy's plan is not to junk the shipping lines which it is his job to salvage, but to encourage them to extend their services into...