Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question: who would run the U. S. in time of war? was vital. But that question alone did not move him to act last week. The President was in a peculiar and exasperating position. For on him, to his pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short...
...thick were war spectres in committee meetings that the pension ghost could hardly edge in. Chief concerns of the convention were strict neutrality and preparedness. Officially the embargo fight was left to Congress, though a random poll of 423 Legionnaires showed that 66% were opposed to the act as it stands...
...Because Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis considered the Federal War Mea sures Act an infringement of Quebec's autonomy, last week he ordered a provincial election for this montjjp-Promptly the Federal Government's Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe declared this an "unprovoked challenge." Most of Quebec's 3,500,000 French-Canadians bitterly opposed conscription in World War I, but the Government, having promised that there would be no conscription this time, thought it had a good chance of ousting the Isolationist Duplessis Government, of bringing Canada greater unity than ever before...
...budget. That was the budget that pitted the House of Commons against the House of Lords in a two-year struggle for power-a struggle which ended only after King George V, by threatening to pack the House of Lords with new peers, forced them to pass the Parliament Act which established the supremacy of Commons...
...Princeton men feel about the war: we are naturally biased in favor of the Allies." Meanwhile at Vassar College, in the Miscellany, Editor Nancy Mclnerney of South Bend, Ind., spoke for young womanhood: "We don't want our husbands shot. We favor the cash-and-carry act because it is more neutral...