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...cigaret after cigaret in his long holder, the President settled down to await the Congressional pleasure. Forty-eight hours later that pleasure was to adjourn, after giving him more social legislation than he had asked for. The railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that...
...Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana's Long stood on the sidelines waiting for a chance to rush in with a bill for farm mortgage moratoriums. Next day was Sunday, with nothing to do but pack up. Monday the Senators continued to jockey each other with filibusters until, at 11:45 p.m., the housing bill, railway bill, farm mortgage moratorium bill had passed both Houses. Then, at last, the 73rd Congress went home. Last Acts. According...
...second distinction when he became the first man convicted of fraud under a new Federal law. For the past 18 months, Governor Langer has made things hum in North Dakota. He made a big to-do by calling out the militia to enforce his wheat embargo, his mortgage moratorium. When taunted by his enemies for a 5% levy on the wages of all State job holders, Governor Langer candidly replied that the contributions were necessary to the life of the G. O. P. In addition to being Governor, William Langer was also State relief administrator. When Federal Relief Administrator...
...Schacht had boldly asked for a complete moratorium. He got one for six months, and considerable savings afterwards. He had tried desperately but failed dismally to bring the Dawes and Young plan loans into the haggle...
...oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural...