Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heflin. Certain Southerners began a boomlet for Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama. Mr. Heflin is the Senator who during the last session of Congress remarked : "A Catholic bullet brought Roosevelt down. . . . If I am murdered many Catholic priests will pay the penalty. . . ." Of him Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland said: "I am afraid he will never be still till he has worn his tongue down to his tonsils." Though Senator Heflin was reported to be "in a receptive mood" the movement was considered anti-Smith rather than pro-Heflin...
...Washington. Meanwhile President Coolidge steadfastly refused to call a special flood session of Congress. Hostile Administration critics maintained that...
...last session of Congress closed with a Republican filibuster which prevented the passage of the urgent deficiency bill, left the Government without sufficient funds for normal activities?let alone flood relief. Assuming that there are 500,000 refugees and that there is $10,000,000 (the Red Cross relief fund) to spend on them, money available for flood relief would be only $20 per victim. By calling a special session, the Government could get both the money for relief work and the authority to spend...
...asserted that President Coolidge's reluctance to a special session sprang from political reasons. Summoned, Congress might make a flood appropriation; then open up the Vare scandal and the Smith scandal, consider an anti-third term resolution, in general prove embarrassing to the President...
...President but anti-Administration Congressmen are the politics-players. At a special session, flood relief would be forgotten in wrangles over organization, in sniping at the Administration. By the time Congress assembled and got anything done the immediate emergency would long be over...