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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the White House had announced that Franklin Roosevelt was to duplicate the unique performance of Woodrow Wilson in addressing a night session of Congress,* Republicans had sent up a terrific squawk. Shrieked Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher: "Politics!" To secure unanimous consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this...
...President Roosevelt proclaimed U. S. neutrality policy to consist of refusal to belligerents of: 1) all munitions; 2) abnormal quantities of other commodities essential to war. Point No. 1 of the President's policy exists as law only until the Neutrality Resolution passed by Congress last session shall expire on Feb. 29. Point No. 2 has thus far been only a matter of moral suasion by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. Few hours before the President spoke, there was introduced in both Senate and House, by Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman...
...beneficial effects of this program and from increasing expenditures on public works cannot be foretold as accurately today as it can two months from now. ... I shall transmit [relief] estimates with far greater knowledge and, therefore, with greater accuracy in sufficient time before the adjournment of this session. . . ." Counting, therefore, on spending for relief in fiscal 1937 only $1,103,000,000, the budget showed a nominal deficit (exclusive of debt retirement) of $518,000,000, compared to an expected deficit of $2,682,000,000 for fiscal 1936. Thus unless $2,164,000,000 is spent in fiscal...
...probability that Congress will order payment of the Bonus this year was ignored by the President in his estimates of the Government's spending for fiscal 1936 and 1937. Only one indirect reference did he make to the Bonus: "If the Congress enacts legislation at the coming session which will impose additional charges upon the Treasury for which provision is not already made in this budget, I strongly urge that additional taxes be provided to cover such charges. It is important as we emerge from the Depression that no new activities be added to the Government unless provision...
After gloomily pronouncing Manhattan an unmusical city, big, brooding Otto Klemperer boarded a train for Los Angeles last week to take command of a Philharmonic Orchestra where audiences roundly hail him as a hero. During a 13-week session the towering German had led the New York Philharmonic through many a scholarly performance. In his wake a Carnegie Hall concert was called for 8:45 p. m. At 8:44 p. m. there came sauntering through the stage entrance a short, top-heavy man with piercing brown eyes, a militant goatee, a bland, self-assured manner. It was Sir Thomas...