Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First event was a vote in the Senate on the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty. Twice the President had sent messages urging its ratification. Several times he had told Senator Robinson, who manages the Administration's affairs in the Senate, that the treaty should and would be ratified. The Roosevelt prestige and popularity, if nothing else, would put it through. Last week when the roll call was taken only 46 votes, 13 short of the necessary two-thirds majority, were cast for it. Of the 42 votes against it, 22 were cast by Democrats. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois...
...Marnus, the eminent Danish architect, will give a public lecture in Robinson Hall on Tuesday at 4.30 o'clock...
...last week President Roosevelt held a long and earnest conference with his leader in the Senate, hardworking, humorless Joseph Taylor Robinson from Arkansas. Long sessions of Congress always make trouble for an Administration, and the President wants Congress adjourned somewhere between May 1 and May 15. Together President and Senator surveyed the calendar of Congress as if it were a chessboard, saw it littered with pieces of legislation, some to be moved to victory, others to be left dead when the board is arbitrarily swept clean by adjournment. Like two chessmasters they ticked off the bills that the Administration feels...
After these three prime requisites the President and Senator Robinson made out a list of bills which the Administration earnestly desires but which are less essential to its program...
Exchange regulation. The President wanted passed a bill "against well-recognized evils of the Exchange.'' Senator Robinson at first intimated that its passage at this session was not guaranteed. But when the White House consented to accept amendments to ease the drastic provisions of the first draft. Senator Robinson changed his mind and swung his followers into line...