Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special $2-a-ton tax, assessed under the Revenue Act of 1932. The coal industry's alarm diminished promptly when the Soviet Government saluted the agreement by announcing that coal exports to the U. S. next year will not exceed 400,000 tons, slightly less than Russia shipped...
...sole losers. They had only been pulling chestnuts out of the fire. They would drop, at least for the time being, only a small share of their tonnage to island refiners, but U. S. beet and cane growers would be without the extended protection of the expiring Jones-Costigan Act, which has helped keep U. S. sugar more than three times as high as the world market price...
...Housing Bill, 1937 edition, was modeled closely after a popular British slum-clearing act. It provided for $700,000,000 to be loaned by the Federal Government to a U. S. Housing Authority for pulling down noxious tenement houses and erecting low-rental dwellings in their stead. The Authority would then reimburse the Treasury by selling their own 60-year bonds (guaranteed by the U. S.) to the public. If income from the necessarily low rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy...
...behavior, and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Because the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned and accepted a pension which in 1932 was cut in half as an economy measure, the Supreme Court Retirement Act was passed this year to give elderly justices a better reason for quitting. It provides that they may retire (i.e., go on inactive duty, subject to call if needed) thereby continuing in office in the sense that their pay may not be diminished. How, asked Mr. Borah, if Justice...
...Dawson Bates, 60, Home Secretary of Northern Ireland. He had just taken charge of the police campaign to track down the extremists who did their best to reduce the royal visit to a shambles. Moreover, since 1922 he has been empowered by the Civil Authorities Act to jail indefinitely anybody suspected of sedition, has frequently exercised his privilege to the discomfort of Republicans...