PRESIDENT’S MANDATE.
TO ENACT NEW DEAL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Because informal polls showed that the fate of President Roosevelt’s judicial programme is likely to rest on the decision of less than a dozen Senators, forces supporting the President intensified their efforts to ensure the passage ot the necessary amendments.
The President called four opposing Senators to a White House consultation and told them he regarded his election as a mandate to enact the New Deal proposals, which was impossible under a Supreme Court constituted as at present. Labour’s Non-Partisan League sent a letter to each members’ of Congress informing him that it would expect every liberal and progressive member to support the President. !i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 9
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114PRESIDENT’S MANDATE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 9
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