Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little directly to consumers, introduced a resolution calling for a joint House & Senate investigation as Mr. Morgan proposed. George Norris insisted that the investigation be kept out of Congress, referred to the Federal Trade Commission, but FTC members gave him scant encouragement. To the Senate's anti-Administration bloc, even the remotest prospect of uncovering a Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire's Republican Bridges hastened to introduce a resolution calling for a Senate committee investigation of TVA on 23 "charges." Among the 23: wasting public funds, suppression...
...fact that they revived the old argument whether capital ships are outmoded. The President proposes to build three of these $70,000,000 giants (besides two now building and two provided for in the 1939 appropriations), and by opposing them Maury Maverick, leader of the pro-Roosevelt left-wing bloc, showed his independence. His distaste for both the Naval and recession policies of the Administration he summed up on the floor of the House, saying...
...late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political broadcasts. Europe would like some of the U. S. space but is little likely to get it at the Cairo meeting for the Pan-American nations last autumn agreed to back the U. S. in a bloc. Representing the U. S. was a commission of four, a staff of 25, headed by veteran U. S. delegate to international radio parleys, Maine's heavy-jowled Senator Wallace H. White Jr. It will be Senator White's job to make certain that if President Roosevelt wants to hold...
...Governors' conference). Shortly after the visitors emerged to let cameramen snap nine of the best political faces in the South (see cut), the White House issued the text of a resolution signed by the Governors endorsing "a floor for wages and a ceiling for hours." Since the Southern bloc in the House defeated the Wages & Hours Bill last month, some newshawks jumped at the conclusion that the President and Governors had made a deal, they to furnish Southern support for Wages & Hours, he to get them lower freight rates. If any such deal was made, it did not seem...
...pupil of England's Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall to one of the stanchest foes that TVA has in the House, Kentucky's Democratic Andrew Jackson...