It was Saturday night and the members of the House had drained the last drops of beer & ale in their Restaurant. But they did not get away from Washington that night, thanks to the Senate. In that august chamber bitter legislative rivalries at the last minute thwarted the Administration's best plans for a quick adjournment. Ohio's Bulkley started the tangle with a measure for minor amendments to the Banking Act—1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana's...
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