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...private housing boom (see p. 18). On the pressing subject of taxes, the President announced that he favored the revision being discussed in .the House as soon as "Congress is ready." A balanced budget in 1939 would be a business stimulant. The President reiterated to Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley his insistence that the new Farm Bill include provisions for whatever expenses above the current $500,000,000 appropriated for annual farm programs which it might entail. To a press conference, he announced his intention of asking Congress to reduce next year's Federal subsidies for State highways...
...weary closing days of the last session, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was filling the calendar for the session to follow when his distracted lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator...
...Senate last week, 18 of the 20 members of the Senate Finance Committee went on record for modifying the undistributed profits tax. Strongest opposition to the tax came from the Committee's Chairman Pat Harrison who, having failed by one vote to beat Kentucky's Alben Barkley for the Senate Democratic Leadership last summer, no longer feels any inhibitions about speaking out on fiscal policies which may or may not have Presidential favor. Said he: "The main thing I have in mind is employment, and if private industry is given some encouragement it will help. Today...
...bill to create seven regional TVAs was clearly formulated. Executive reorganization looked like the first item on the calendar but on it also was something definitely not included on the President's list. This was the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill which Senate Democratic Leader Alben Barkley had agreed to consider early in the current session to avoid a possible filibuster in the closing days of the last one. With antilynching, and the possibility of a major Congressional uproar on the subject of taxation added to the President's highly controversial program, the only thing the special...
These sentiments, which would leave many a businessman cold, when enunciated by U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Chicago last week before the annual American Finance Conference were greeted with thunderous applause. For the American Finance Conference is the trade association of independent automobile financing companies and currently it is in a tremendous stew over what it calls the ''monopolistic coercion" practiced by the four big financing companies owned or tied up with automobile companies...