Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intricacies of his budget message 24 hours before he sent it to the Capitol (see p. 16). His third message, on Government Reorganization, which goes to Congress this week, required two preliminary sessions. Sunday afternoon he spent an hour and a half priming Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison, Speaker Bankhead, Representatives Rayburn, Buchanan and Doughton on the Re-organization Plan so that they would be prepared to defend it from the first moment that opposition reared its ugly head...
...Deal leaders of Congress- Leader Robinson of the Senate, Speaker Bankhead of the House, and others such as Chairman Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee-had declared for a constitutional amendment to achieve such aims. But the expression of pleasure on their faces suddenly changed to surprise at Franklin Roosevelt's next words: "During the past year there has been a growing belief that there is little fault to be found with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law but an increasingly enlightened view with...
...five members whose six-year terms expire this June are George Russell Agassiz '89, Allston Burr '89, Dwight Parker Robinson '90, Frederick Winsor '93, and William Phillips...
...exhibit of reproductions of works of twelve American painters, selected by Living American Art, Inc., of New York City, and now being shown at 300 points throughout the United States, opened today at Robinson Hall...
...Artist Jorgensen moved away from Yosemite to build another home, entirely of boulders, at Carmel-by-the-Sea, within pistol shot of the homes of Poet Robinson Jeffers and the late Lincoln Steffens, but he continued to visit Yosemite from time to time, continued to paint it. In June 1935, Chris Jorgensen died...