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...enacted. After five days of stewing President Roosevelt summoned Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner, Senator Harrison, Majority Leader Robinson and Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee to the White House. After nearly three hours' debate, Senator Robinson emerged to announce that the President had decided to push the tax program through this session of Congress. He proposed to attach it to a joint resolution extending certain "nuisance" taxes which must be passed this week to avoid their expiration...
...purchasing agent; Director of the Budget Daniel W. Bell-and along with them Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hopkins. For works relief was not a departmental effort. When Franklin Roosevelt took personal charge, the whole Administration was in-the whole New Deal was going over the top in its big push to be out of the breadlines before Election...
...Tonight," he cried, "I invited the laborer and the farmer, the small business man and the small merchant, the disorganized of every class, each to grasp the spear shaft of union, the shaft of solidarity, and with perfectly timed thrusts, with amalgamated strength, to push that spear point through the breastplate of our common ills into the very heart of the concentration of wealth...
...track, Hull of Princeton, is expected to push Bob Playfair in the 3000 meter run, while Hogan will be Princeton's bid against Jack Scheu in the 1500. Bliss and Woodward will probably run for the Crimson in the 300, while Carlisle Abell will place...
Rebuking another Democratic sniper at the New Deal, Secretary Ickes also last week canceled four loans totaling $210,000 allotted to Georgia. Governor Eugene Talmadge, who last week blatantly turned his anti-New Deal fire directly on President Roosevelt (see p. 14), had promised to push passage of a bill validating the sale of Georgia Highway Department Certificates to guarantee the loans in question. When the bill was passed Governor Talmadge vetoed it. Commented Secretary Ickes: "I like to do business with a man whose word I can rely on. We don't care for any more underwriting...