Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President did not do much to strengthen the theory that his attitude toward Business has changed markedly in the last six weeks. To Business, however, there was encouragement in the rumor at week's end that he planned soon to announce plans for starting a nationwide housing program financed by private capital and that the plans would include naming an outstanding capitalist, someone like U. S. Steel's Edward Stettinius Jr. or General Electric's Gerard Swope, to head the drive...
...still sweating to get the farm bill out of committee, the calendar wide open. Senator Smith's junior colleague, Jimmy Byrnes, tried to stave off the inevitable by arguing that in default of the Farm Bill the Senate should proceed to another item on the President's program, his executive reorganization proposals. But anti-lynching advocates led by Missouri's stocky Bennett Clark, one of the Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this would violate their agreement. At this juncture Vice President Garner, who like his chief had an aching tooth and wanted no part...
Under very different auspices the 75th Congress reconvened in a Special Session last week, ostensibly to enact the ambitious program outlined by the President in his fireside chat six weeks ago. New Deal ranks in Congress, split by the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last winter, were still sharply divided. The President's popularity, despite his triumphal tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major...
...down to four items when he omitted modernized anti-trust legislation in his opening message, the President's program called for legislation on: 1) crop control, 2) wages & hours, 3) reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, 4) Regional Planning. Last week this program, with one exception, remained approximately where it was before the Session convened. The exception was Item...
First in a series of fall concerts was presented by the Instrumental Clubs in Weston last night. The vocal club, Madolin Club, swing quartet, Gold Coast, Orchestra, and specialty actors combined in a varied program...