Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their armament programs. I have used every conceivable effort to stop this trend and to work toward a decrease of armaments. Facts, nevertheless, are facts. and the United States must recognize them. Will you, therefore, be good enough to inform the subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next session of Congress has met, it is possible that I may send supplementary estimates for commencing construction on a number of ships additional to the above program?" ¶In a proclamation carefully guarded until markets closed on New Year's Eve, the President set the U. S. Treasury...
Legislative Program. The working plan which the President originally laid down for Congress last autumn contained five items of which one-anti-trust legislation-was left out of his message to the Special Session two months ago. This week, the President omitted another-Regional Planning-recommended for enactment 1) the Farm Bill, 2) a wages-&-hours bill and 3) modernized anti-trust laws. Of the first: "It is shameless misrepresentation to call this a policy of scarcity. It is in truth insurance before the fact instead of Government subsidy after the fact." Of the second (which the House sent back...
Other Harvard men filling important positions were A. Jerome Himelhoch '38, who served on the Nominating Committee and as co-chairman of the labor discussion round table, and H. Van Buren Cleveland '38, chairman of the opening session of the convention. Reizo Nishikawa '40 was secretary of the convention, and Harold L. Stubbs '39 official recorder...
When Franklin Roosevelt called Congress into extraordinary session three months ago, he outlined a five-point legislative program which provided for: 1) Crop control 2) Wage, hour regulation 3) Executive reorganization 4) Regional planning 5) Anti-trust law revision Last week when Congress adjourned, it had passed a five-point program which provided for: 1) $225,000 to pay members' traveling expenses to and from the extra session. 2) $12,000 for salaries of pages. 3) Lending four of the Capitol's gallery of portraits of signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Corcoran Art Gallery...
...Republican floor leader of the House, New York's Bertrand H. Snell, has the duty of taking cracks at the majority, but he was in better form last week than usual when he came to summarize the highlights of the session. He listed: 1) the President's fishing trip, 2) Vice President Garner's hunting trip in Pennsylvania and 3) a Congressional eating contest, to decide the relative merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes...