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...confer with Chairman Glass. Instead he kept Senator Byrnes-sardonically referred to by Mr. Glass as "the real Chairman of the Committee"-running to the telephone to confer on Franklin Roosevelt's desires. But when the bill got in trouble, when the Committee liberals voted to boost the low relief wages which Franklin Roosevelt had planned ($50 a month) up to "the prevailing scale of wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages), President Roosevelt got crusty Conservative Glass on the wire to seek his aid. The liberal amendment would not only boost the expected cost of work relief...
...spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double the sum spent and boost work relief pay from a subsistence level ($50 a month) to prevailing wage rates; 4) Inflationists who want to finance the program with greenbacks...
...issue was settled: the Senate would not be hurried, would fight the matter out. In committee the Conservatives just missed victory when an amendment to substitute the dole for work relief failed by a tie vote; the Liberals won a temporary victory by a 12-to-8 vote to boost relief wages to prevailing rates; the Inflationists lost on a greenback amendment. But these were inconclusive skirmishes, to be refought in the Senate. Despite opposition only a major accident was likely to upset the Administration's plans because 1) its bill is in effect a compromise which...
...Aware that an adverse decision would boost the Federal debt about $10,000,000,000, would wipe out the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, would have a highly deflationary effect upon their program, New Dealers began to figure what to do. They considered: 1) enlarging the Court so that the President could pack it with new members favorable to his cause; 2) declaring a moratorium until a Constitutional Amendment could be adopted forbidding the Court to declare Federal laws unconstitutional, declaring it retroactive; 3) paying in gold as demanded and establishing a 60% tax to get back the excess...
...with a Lady Bountiful gave her a social secretary's job on easy street. A rich young socialite fell in love with her, and Etta leaned the same way herself, but she was a little too cautious to let go entirely. The War separated them, gave Etta another boost up the economic ladder. On his first leave Etta was prepared to give him all, but at the last minute her finer feelings overcame her. When they met again, it was too late, she was about to have a baby by a middle-aged barrister, whom Etta had tricked into...