Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders completed the first month of the special session with the hardest part of their No. 1 job still ahead. Both House and Senate bills aim to give Secretary Wallace more power to deal with mounting farm production than he possesses under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved...
...members are reconciled to collective bargaining, they managed to write a labor platform that would appeal to organized labor about as much as an anti-picketing injunction. The manufacturers asked for the easing of Federal and State restrictions on the use of labor injunctions. They asked that the Byrnes Act be amended to ban interstate transportation of "strike-makers" as well as strike breakers. They asked that a long list of strikes be declared illegal, including sitdown strikes, general strikes, strikes for a closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied...
Written by Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who was recuperating from a heavy cold, read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the majority opinion found that the Secretary of the Treasury "did not act in excess of his lawful powers by issuing the calls without further authority from the Congress than was conferred by the statutes under which the bonds were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will...
When Senator Berry himself took the stand, TVA Lawyer Alvin Ziegler dramatically produced a sheaf of documents. These, presented to the three presiding commissioners, turned out to be powers of attorney issued by several farmers about the time the TVA act was passed to Partners Berry and Harris, authorizing them to act as their agents for a 50% commission in financial transactions with the Government...
Altogether the present editors of the magazine have done a courageous thing--in setting forth so vivid an illustration of what the Monthly once was. They act a standard and issue a challenge, to be taken up by their own college generation. The thought, taste, and expression of this generation are bound to be different from those of twenty and fifty years ago. Let it represent the very best that Harvard can yield today, and twenty, fifty, years hence another retrospective issue will receive the welcome now extended to this...