Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before he boarded the Potomac last week, the President completed action on the last of 937 bills passed and sent to the White House by Congress in its last session. Of the year's total, the President signed 897, vetoed 40. Last week at his Hyde Park desk, he signed: the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill (TIME, Aug. 30); a bill to permit exports of helium in ''non-military" quantities; a bill authorizing $2,760,000 to be appropriated for restoring U. S. wildlife (see p. 48); a bill providing $2,000,000 to purchase reindeer herds...
...President set out for the Coast in late September, he could still be back in ample time for the extra session of Congress which he had not yet quite made up his mind to call last week. One advantage of an extra session would be to give Congress a chance to study crop control legislation without one eye on the deadline of 1938 spring planting. Another would be to give it a chance to get a head-start on such important legislation as anti-lynching and wages & hours, which it should settle before adjourning next year in time for members...
...Loophole Bill which the Treasury hopes will plug some $100,000,000 worth of holes in the income tax law, the $87.662.634 Third Deficiency Bill. He also signed Congress' ''promissory note" pledging to make farm legislation the first order of business in the next session, in return for which he had agreed to cotton crop loans...
This delay was hailed as a victory for the A. F. of L.-minded Chicagoans, but actually it was not, since the C. I. 0. enthusiasts had no hope of winning the convention over at this session, wanted chiefly to keep the question open while they got in further spade work. Moreover, the resolution condemned A. F. of L.'s suspension of C. I. O. unions as "undemocratic action," put the Teachers' Federation on record as refusing to pay special antiC. I. O. assessments levied by A. F. of L., commended "the great success...
...ballots which they cast have been lost, 34 ballots originally tallied for Jenks By actual ballots now available, Roy won the election by 24. By a tally of ballots recorded, Jenks won by ten. Last week Congressman Jenks was determined no only to hold his seat through the next session, but to stand for reelection. Says he "I sure have been in politics...