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...four days. Happy and gratified was the President that a last-minute Senate revolt against the bill carrying $360,000,000 savings in Veterans' pensions had been put down. On recalcitrant Democratic Senators strong pressure had been exerted in the cloakrooms by Leader Robinson, around the Capitol by Budget Director Douglas and. most of all, by Postmaster General Farley (see p. 10). The President himself had made some strategic telephone calls...
...special session of the 73rd Congress had hung up an amazing record of achievement in its 14-week sitting. It had sanctioned presidential economies that brought the ordinary budget close to balance. It had taken the U. S. off gold, provided for currency inflation. It had enacted a farm price-fixing bill that made earlier efforts at agricultural relief look puny and insignificant. It had arranged for a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program for farm, mortgages, $2,000,000,000 for home mortgages. Half a billion dollars was voted for direct unemployment relief. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created...
...work with Administrator Sawyer, the President set up a Special Board for Public Works composed of Secretaries of Interior, War, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, the Attorney General, the Director of the Budget and Col. George R. Spalding, an Army river & harbor engineer who was embarrassed when the Press jumped the gun, reported he would get Col. Sawyer...
...Johnson, West Pointer, lawyer, boys' book writer, associate of Bernard Marines Baruch and originator and administrator of the War-time selective draft. Like Col. Sawyer. General Johnson, as Administrator for Industrial recovery, was given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard...
...Budget Director Lewis Williams Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, widow of Dwight Whitney Morrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D. Harvard Professor Arthur Stanley Pease, retired president of Amherst . .LL.D. Amherst Trustee Frank Waterman Stearns, friend of the late Calvin Coolidge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...