THE PRESIDENCY: Towards Adjournment

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President Roosevelt discovered last week that it was much easier to call Congress into special session in March than it was to send it home in June. Weeks ago he set June 10 as the day he wanted adjournment. June 10 came and went; Congress still sat and snarled. The President had two good reasons for wanting the Capitol promptly vacated: 1) the World Economic Conference which opened in London June 12 (see p. 16); 2) War Debt payments falling due June 15. Because his voice carries farther on...

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