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...money, it is boosting the construction and other heavy industries back to normal. At the White House last week President Roosevelt, who is sold on Harry Hopkins' quick jobmaking, said NO to this Congressional group, refused to haggle over a $400,000,000 compromise. Calling a Democratic caucus, the bloc was voted down, 70-to-53. When Leader Beiter rose in the House and offered his earmark as an amendment to the bill, he was ruled out of order. At that, the hopes of the bloc and Secretary Ickes expired. The PWAdministrator promptly foreshadowed the end of his organization...
Inquisitive young men, professional peace lovers, retired businessmen, pretty maidens, frumpy matrons, distinguished-looking Negroes, seedy individuals who frequent places of political excitement, occupied half the spacious floor of the barnlike Senate Caucus Room one morning last week. As representatives of the People, on neat rows of chairs, they sat silent and well-behaved, staring at the hurly-burly in the other half of the room...
With a red-hot speech of which this was the climax beefy Edouard Daladier challenged the leadership of beefier Edouard Herriot last week at the annual caucus of France's great balance-of-power party, the Radical Socialists...
...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...
...care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further. No sooner had he departed than Senators Tydings, Harrison and Robinson trooped into the White House for a full hour's heart-to-heart with the President. They too marched out mum, but Senator Tydings hurried over to the Senate caucus room, recessed his investigation...