Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, when after 229 days the 75th Congress finally adjourned, it had indeed proved efficient but in ways that no one had anticipated. Far from churning out a record quantity of important legislation, it had turned out almost none. Far from advancing the President's program, it had all but stopped it in its tracks. But if the 75th Congress' positive achievements were somewhat negative, its negative achievements were sensationally positive. Last week, casting up the balance, political observers unanimously agreed that whatever Congress had done in 1937, what it had not done was infinitely more important...
...bill to reorganize the administrative branch of the Government, create two new Cabinet departments, give the President six special assistants. The House passed separate bills, authorizing part of the program. The special Senate Committee reported favorably a somewhat different bill, but action was postponed till next session...
...Final item of the 1937 total was last week's Third Deficiency Bill of $87,622,634. Passage of the bill included a victory for the House Liberal bloc headed by Texas' noisy Maury Maverick, who wanted $20,000,000 for an experimental Government farm tenancy program, $1,800,000 for the National Labor Relations Board, got both...
...surface the squabble seemed childish. The Portuguese Government ordered 600 light machine guns from Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co. at Brno for its rearmament program. The factory first agreed to supply them, then demanded a written declaration that the arms were exclusively for the Portuguese Army, finally welched on the entire order. Portugal, insisting that the factory was actually Government owned and that cancellation of the order had been made "under pressure of those who wish to prevent or impede Portugal's rearmament," broke relations without further warning. Behind this act lay a simple inference...
Offered as an "outstanding educational program in the form of entertainment of great popular appeal," The Headless Horseman suffered even more from overbilling than it did from the thunderstorm which made its reception almost inaudible. It was written last winter for music students of the Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully...