"Do something'' was the philosophy which Franklin Roosevelt announced two months ago at Baltimore. But last week, although it was touch and go whether Congress would adjourn June 6, the President took a strictly laissez faire attitude toward legislative matters. No message of his was rushed to the Capitol to spur jaded legislative steeds or to direct their course. At his press conferences he told newshawks that he really had not heard how the tax bill was getting on, etc., etc.
But when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond Brandt asked whether the...