Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...When the 71st Congress sat down Dec. 1 for its final session, it had 70 working days ahead of it in which to do its essential work and avert a special session of the 72nd Congress after March 4. Parliamentary experts, familiar with the Administration's program, listed 13 essential bills Congress must pass in its 70 days. Of these, eleven were appropriation bills to pay Federal running costs through fiscal 1932. The other two were Unemployment Relief and Drought Relief...
...cheerful throng of $10,000-per-year men was converging last week upon Washington. After all had arrived safely they would take their 531 seats and answer to their 531 names as members of the 71st Congress, third session, sitting...
...older sister, Professor Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago. But she is the more militant. Perhaps that is why she has risen to high administrative work in the government and is discussed as successor to her superior, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, who retires to join the 71st Congress as Senator from Pennsylvania when it meets this week...
...favor of going ahead and disposing of business in an orderly and, I trust, intelligent way; and I will pay no attention to any cooked-up effort to stampede the Congress." Nevertheless the immediate significance (if any) of the Democratic offer was that the Democrats of the 71st Senate would sup port the Republicans against the insurgents of their own party...
...Bloc. Democratic Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, long leader of the small group of avowed Wets in the House, saw his opportunity in the split which Chairman Fess, in trying to avert, had created. Rushing to Washington, Congressman Linthicum indited invitations to all 71st House members to attend a Wet Bloc organization meeting early in December. Of Chairman Fess's statement he said: "It means a Demo cratic victory beyond a doubt." Mr. Linthicum put Repeal above party, insisting: "Regardless of party platforms, the fight to elect Wet members . . . will continue. . . . We have just begun to fight." Sage...