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...hawing by many a Senator and Representative who refused to consider it emergency legislation to be passed in a race with Spring's approach. Though its ultimate passage seemed assured, Congress was apparently determined to do plenty of amending before returning it to the White House. The real test of Roosevelt leadership would largely depend on whether the amendments could be held down to resounding trivialities...
...Secretary of the Treasury Woodin was proud to report to his President that $1,831,815,600 had been subscribed for the Treasury's $800,000,000 offering of short-term securities for March 15 refinancing. Thus did the Administration handily weather its first test of financial confidence...
Already the Anti-Saloon League was preparing to test the validity of the Cullen Act before the Supreme Court. Big question: is 3.2% beer intoxicating in fact? If so, the court would be inclined to rule that the law is unconstitutional under the 18th Amendment...
...farm bill, so drastic in administrative possibilities, immediately precipitated, hotter than ever, familiar arguments between interested parties. As emergency measures the President's bank, beer and economy bills were practically undebatable. Farm Relief, a hard old rock on which three other administrations stuck, loomed as the first dangerous test of White House leadership. Most rural Senators and Representatives agreed that it was "a pretty good bill" but nowhere was there any red-hot belief in its magic...
...enforce their ethi-co-literary standards on the rest of the community. As matters now stand, independent book-sellers cannot afford to take up cases in court, but find it less costly to settle their difficulties by with-drawing the books in question. Thus there are very few test cases where publicity and opinions can be mobilized to fight the suppression of literature that rightly belongs to the reveling public. If, however, the publishers are implicated, they will be willing and able to contest the actions of the local Catos, and their strength will encourage the minor sellers to force...