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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm Loan Interest. Only major veto of the session was placed by Franklin Roosevelt on a bill to extend for two years the "emergency" rate of 3½% on Federal Land Bank loans to farmers. Last week both Houses overrode the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his word that an Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Crop Control. The second Agricultural Adjustment Act, on the President's calendar for the special session but not passed until February, gave the Secretary of Agriculture full power to control crop marketing by voluntary co-operation if possible, by compulsion if necessary (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Judges. Having killed (in its first session) Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, in its third session the 75th Congress did create the 20 new minor Federal judgeships he had requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue of Vander Meer replace that of onetime U. S. President James A. Garfield in Garfield Square. In special session at Columbus, the Ohio Senate passed a resolution in "tribute to the newly crowned king of the baseball world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Lefthander | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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