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...White House could not miss it: Franklin Roosevelt's mood had changed. His whole legislative program was in the pot and boiling. At last everything was coming to a head. The Social Securities Bill, the Banking Bill, the Utilities Bill, the Wagner Bill, the fate of NRA. And last week at that important juncture, suddenly the irritability which had marked his recent actions dropped from him. His "winter peeve" was over. Once more he was the President of two years past, taking the political initiative, breaking precedents with verve and satisfaction...
Last week it looked indeed as if he would get most of his legislative program from Congress but everything was not rosy. His proposal to extend NRA for two years seemed about to take a licking (see p. 16). He had on paper only a bare margin to prevent passage over his veto of the Bonus Bill which would dump $2,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks on the nation. He had the problem of roundly rejustifying his whole program of lavish expenditure-in order to justify excluding the Bonus...
...Adopted the Clark resolution extending NRA until April...
Without bothering to take a record vote, the Senate last week passed a resolution to extend NRA, not for two years but only to next April 1, to outlaw code price-fixing in all but mineral natural-resource industries, to exempt from code control "any person whose business is wholly intrastate...
...House did as the President wished-insisted on a two-year extension without emasculation-it appeared that NRA's death might be swifter. For the Senate had passed the nine-months resolution only because Senator Borah and other NRA enemies had agreed to it as a price for not fighting any form of NRA renewal. Said Senator Pat Harrison, Administration whip...