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November Special Session of 75th Congress

Left-Over Measures Awaiting Consideration

The special session of Congress, called October 12 to meet on November 15, 1937, will be the second to assemble in response to a summons by President Roosevelt under that section of the Constitution which gives the Chief Executive power to convoke both houses of the National Legislature “on extraordinary occasions.”

The first special session of the present administration, which sat from March 9 to June 15, 1933, enacted such basic measures of the New Deal program as ...

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