Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...act of courage," applauded Mayor LaGuardia, and other New Yorkers agreed. For besides being a good Democrat, William Francis Xavier Geoghan is a good Roman Catholic, a fact important to Governor Lehman last week. Mr. Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed...
...pensions in winning the Democratic nomination (virtual election) for Governor of Texas. Colorado is going gently broke because its promisers tried to give the oldsters too much ($45 a month). Last week Franklin Roosevelt, the smartest politician in the big U. S., recommended that the Social Security Act should be revised to extend its benefits to another...
...disastrous warfare over the half-desert, half-swamp of the Chaco. About 100,000 men lost their lives. Then there were three years of patient negotiations at Buenos Aires. Last July Bolivian and Paraguayan representatives signed an agreement submitting to final arbitration by the six Presidents, pledged to act ex aequo et bono-"according to what is right and good." Two weeks later Paraguay's electorate voted ten-to-one to accept any boundary awards made. Bolivia's Constitutional Assembly soon followed suit...
Biggest crab apple in the barrel of discord has long been Electric Bond & Share Co., which led the fight against the Public Utility Holding Company Act ("death sentence") requiring that utility empires be reorganized into geographically integrated systems with no more than one intermediary holding company between the operating companies and the top. But last spring the Supreme Court ended a long SEC-E.B. & S. court fight by deciding that the clause of the act requiring all the holding companies to register with SEC was constitutional...
Though the E.B. & S. action by no means insures that it or some other company may not otherwise fight the Holding Company Act, President Roosevelt and Chairman Douglas at once issued huzzas. The President said that E.B. & S.'s action was a fine example of the cooperation the White House "spokesman" requested in his "sabre-rattling" discourse fortnight ago and would certainly 'help business generally. What was more, said Mr. Roosevelt, the utility industry would discover that the so-called "death sentence" was really a health sentence and would revitalize the industry (see p. 9). Said Mr. Douglas...