National Affairs: First Days

When the 75th Congress met for the first time last January, the country was comparatively prosperous, Franklin Roosevelt had just been resoundingly endorsed at the polls and the New Deal had a huge Democratic majority in both houses.

Under very different auspices the 75th Congress reconvened in a Special Session last week, ostensibly to enact the ambitious program outlined by the President in his fireside chat six weeks ago. New Deal ranks in Congress, split by the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last winter, were still sharply divided. The...

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