CONGRESS ADJOURNS
BUSY SESSION CONCLUDED VICTORY FOR THE PRESIDENT (United Press Association.) * (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, June 16. (Received June 16, at 8,5 p.m.) With a final victory for President Roosevelt in the form of the adoption of his plan for reduced war veterans’ benefits after he had threatened to veto a more liberal proposal bitterly contended for by the Republicans, Congress at last adjourned at an early hour this morning, having been in extraordinary session since , March 9. President Roosevelt’s programme was virtually enacted in full, including such major measures, as the Emergency Banking Relief and Banking Reform Bill, and beer, Government economy, agricultural relief, railway reorganisation, and industrial recovery measures, etc. An appropriation of £3,459,(500,000 dollars was also passed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21982, 17 June 1933, Page 11
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