Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would do so before Congress adjourned. Last week with that adjournment becoming imminent, what had been taken for granted became a matter of speculation. For the President announced he had asked Attorney General Cummings for an opinion on his power to appoint a Justice when Congress was not in session...
...last question depends on the sentence in the Constitution which says: "The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session." The present vacancy did not "happen" (in the sense of "occur") during a recess of the Senate but it will "happen" (in the sense of "happen to exist") during a recess if the President waits until after Congress adjourns. Franklin Roosevelt gave the press to understand that his Attorney General espoused the latter view, but gave...
...tune lilted all last week through the heads of the 500-odd members of the U, S. Congress: Home, Sweet Home. Senator LaFollette, who had spent the previous weekend yachting with the President, broadcast to the press his view that Congress should stay in session until a ''comprehensive legislative schedule" had been enacted. He said that he spoke only for himself, which in one sense was true since he is the only member of the Progressive Party in the Senate, but Senator Barkley, the new majority leader, who had also been on the yachting party was promptly quizzed...
...discuss what part of the President's Court Plan could be saved. While they were doing so Mr. Garner conferred with Senator Wheeler, the leader of the opposition, and told him to write his own Court Bill. The fight was over. On the following morning in a session of the Judiciary Committee the bill was written in memorandum form...
...opposition, wary of trickery, made another stipulation that the original Court Bill should be sent back to Committee and killed for this session, that the new bill would be added as an amendment to a minor court bill already passed by the House so that Administration strength in the House could not be used to change it back to the form desired by the President...