Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these reasons, he said, he gravely disapproved the new Tax Bill. But it did have some good features. "Therefore, for the first time since I have been President ... I am going to let the act go into effect at midnight tonight without my approval...
...When Lilienthal was reappointed Dr. Arthur did not resign, as threatened, but tried to get President Roosevelt to approve the principle that the Board could act only after a unanimous vote. Failing in that, he tried to tie the Board's hands by going away for a long rest...
...pleasure was the failure of C. I. O. co-Founder & Secretary Charles P. Howard to be re-elected president of the potent International Typographical Union. The printers by a 3-2 vote replaced C. I. O. man Howard by their Vice President Claude M. Baker, of San Francisco. Their act as labor men knew was, however, more a repudiation of Mr. Howard than of C. I. O. For in his twelve years as head of I. T. U., his two-and-a-half years of personal affiliation with C. I. O., aggressive President Howard made many an enemy for himself...
Outlining the chief provisions of the act, killed by a narrow margin in the House last March, Pettee recommended, its adoption to remedy the tangle in the Executive department, which he likened to "a thousand room apartment house designed and built one room at a time...
...Altogether the whole act would simply give us a more effective administrative machine for the carrying out of the policies of government," George S. Pettee '26, instructor in Government, said last night in a Guardian broadcast over WAAB in which he urged the passage of the recently shelved Government Reorganization Bill...