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Child Refugee Bill Fails in Senate
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- When the present session of the Seventy-sixth Congress adjourns sine die, all legislation left pending carries its status over into the next session of the Seventy-sixth Congress. (Some students of government believe that the cause of good government would be furthered if the same situation were to obtain from one Congress to another.) The following subjects were covered in bills which made some progress in the present session but were left for further action to the next session:
IMPORTANT
Neutrality and war supplies embargoes. Profiteering in war time. War reterenaum.
Modifying the Wage-Hour act.
Amending the Labor Relations act. (House investigation of Labor Relations Board aulhoriced.)
Seditious and radical activities. Deportation system.
Anti-third term resolution. Amendment for limiting presidential term.
Reorganizing regulation of transportation. New system of handling railroad receiverships in general.
Ban on further issues of tax-exempt securities.
Extension of clean politics bill to state and municipal political activities.
Insurance of cotton crop.
Law-making by administrative rulings.
LESS IMPORTANT
Strengthening government contracts (Walsh-Healey) act.
Block-booking of motion pictures.
Labeling of virgin wool in wool fabrics.
Additional projects for rivers and harbors improvement; also for eliminating water pollution.
Child refugee bill.
Passed by Senate, refused consideration by House:
Lending hill (restricted).
Expansion of federal housing activities.
HARDY PERENNIALS
Anti-lynching legislation.
Townsend or similar old age pension plan.
Civil Service extension.
Health insurance.
Item veto power.
Regional planning.
Extension of federal aid to education. - History Unfolded Contributor
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Bibliography
Breitman, Richard, and Alan Kraut. American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
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