Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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, so important that some believed the President would call a special session in the fall...
Besides the bills rushed through last week (see below), the session's chief accomplishments were the passage of a quasi-Neutrality Act, extending and amending the temporary acts of 1935 and 1936; an act to allow Supreme Court Justices to retire on full pay; a modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work...
...bill to limit crop production, produce an "ever-normal granary." In return for a promise to grant loans to Southern cotton growers, both House and Senate promised to make this the first item of business in their next session...
...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...
...major achievements of the 75th Congress lay clearly under Work Undone, what it had undone most thoroughly was exactly what had made it look so capable of other things when it convened last winter. Prospect when it adjourned last week was for a second session whose major sign of promise is that it will have none of the advantages of the first...