Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neutrality Bill, enacted this year was to keep the U. S. out of situations leading to war by enabling the President to embargo U. S. shipments to belligerents. Since the Kellogg Pact renouncing war, no wars have been declared. To undeclared wars the President can apply the Neutrality Act or not, as he sees fit. The law for which the Panay sinking last week surprisingly supplied momentum in Congress was one which, as an expression of pacifism, made the Neutrality Act look like a speech by Mussolini...
...Passed, 324-to-23, without notable amendment, a bill embodying the President's plan to amend the National Housing Act (TIME...
...seeing everything taking place on the Senate floor. Deliberately blind to half-a-dozen Senators on their feet clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial-it and the far different House bill will be combined and rewritten in conference...
...Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped big Farm Bureau Federation most. When the Supreme Court intervened to break up AAA, Ed O'Neal stayed on to help Henry Wallace salvage what he could with the Soil Conservation Act. So this year when Franklin Roosevelt, in the face of mounting agricultural production, asked Congress to amplify the slender powers the Government possessed to control it, Henry Wallace and Ed O'Neal seemed destined to work on another farm bill together...
That the King, when advised to act by one of His Majesty's Governments, always acts as advised is, of course, the essence of the Sovereign's constitutional duty. The British Cabinet was certainly hopeful that there would yet be found some loophole by which King George could avoid placing himself in the inconsistent position of recognizing Vittorio Emanuele as "Emperor" at the Irish Legation in Rome and refusing to do so at the British Embassy. Tartly the Manchester Guardian commented: "Mr. de Valera is steadily developing his theory that while the King is divisible, Ireland...