Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land is the dream of Senator Norris of Nebraska, who sired big TVA. The President put this program on his Must list for the special session last fall, let it be forgotten when the ruckus within TVA broke out. Last bill on the subject submitted was "National Planning Act of 1938" by Representative Joseph Mansfield of Texas, which proposed to curb floods, improve navigation, conserve water, soil, forests, etc., did not mention Power...
...loan of $18,000,000, received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
Whether or not studio employes, from Greta Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed down a long-awaited decision involving Hollywood's 350 screen writers, most of whom make between $150 and $5,000 a week...
...Gave the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate sales of natural gases. The Senate passed, with minor changes, a House bill giving FPC the right (not provided by the Public Utility Holding Co. Act) to declare unlawful any wholesale gas rates not "just & reasonable...
...flowing, an observer watches the height to which successive waves lap on the beach; if the tide has been coming in, and the waves fall shorter & shorter. he suspects the tide has changed. Dow Theorists indeed watch two beaches, note the waves of both industrials and rails, do not act until one confirms the other...