NO DELAY
ROOSEVELT'S WARNING
COMPROMISE BILL ON DOLLAR ISSUE
DEFICIT FOR YEAR
(By tfelegrapti— Press Association—Copyrigi*.) (Received July 1, 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 30.
The House of Representatives * adopted a compromise Bill restoring President Roosevelt's dollar devaluation authority and sent it to t^he Senate, where, however, it was faced with a possible filibuster. V
The President, in a statement to the Press, warned the country that he would riot tolerate delaying tactics which would prevent the measure coming to a vote before midnight, thus defeating it. = r The fiscal year has ended with a deficit of 3,580,000,000 dollars. The gross Natidhal Debt is approximately 40,378,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 10
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106NO DELAY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 10
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