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Occasionally, like Mr. Dawes, he has tried to hurry up Senate proceedings, has threatened, in disputes with the House, to appoint Senate conferees who would favor Administration bills but his net accomplishment of such rough & ready shortcuts has been negligible. His real work begins when he turns the chair over to a colleague and wanders down to the floor to confer with Senators, when he chats with Senatorial friends over a few highballs in his office, when Leader Robinson, Whip Harrison and other Administration men of House and Senate drop in to consult him. For he is recognized...
...minutes later, Speaker Byrns put the question: Should the Bonus Bill be re-passed, the President's objections thereto to the contrary notwithstanding? President Roosevelt had hardly got back to the White House before the Speaker announced the result: 98 to sustain the veto, 322 to override. Net effect of the President's speech on the House-six votes switched against the Bonus...
...ingenuity, the little plane failed to come out of the spin, plunged instead into a net. So impressive was the demonstration, however, that the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics decided to use the tunnel to determine spin characteristics of its new Grumman Fighter, before permitting that risky ship to be flown by any more test pilots (see above...
Catalyst in the New Deal's complex rehabilitation formula was the Jones-Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices...
With like good news for Odhams' John Bull (1,500,000 weekly), The People (3,300,000) and the new Weekly Illustrated, Chairman Elias got to the point of net profits-?347,216 (up nearly ?15,000 from...