Word: recessional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
In its 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...
If the Recession had caused the President's attitude toward Business to undergo a marked change, there was every reason for Congress' attitude toward Business to change even more drastically and more sincerely. Back in Washington after nearly three months of putting their ears to the ground, its...
That Congress was paying far less heed than the President might have wished to the program he had asked it to attend to, by no means meant that it was doing nothing last week. On the contrary, it meant principally that an extraordinary session called when there was nothing very...
Feeling the pinch of Recession, the automobile industry has had to pare production schedules, shorten hours. Fisher Body employes in many cases have been working only 24 hours per week, and when layoffs began the shop was apparently ripe for revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued...