Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill, imposing a 19½% tax on coal sales by producers who do not subscribe to a coal code fixing minimum coal prices; omitting the labor provisions which caused the old Guffey Coal Act to be invalidated. Sent it to the Senate...
...Rand vice president promptly telegraphed that Mr. Rand would be glad to oblige. Meantime this week the National Labor Relations Board concluded its Rand investigation with a blistering 50,000-word report. Flaying Mr. Rand for "cold, deliberate ruthless-ness" and "wholesale violations" of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, it ordered him to reinstate 4,000 striking employes, bargain exclusively with their union in the six struck plants...
Meantime, a finesse which might have opened a tiny entering wedge in the Johnson Act was tried when the French New Dealers asked the Washington New Dealers last week if a fiscal agent such...
...putting ten $100 bills in an envelope and sending the money to France for investment is concerned, there is no way to stop that." As $1,000 is 21,000 francs this was big news to Blum and even to Republican Senator Hiram W. Johnson, author of the Act. "The law is perfectly plain!" snapped the Senator. "It is unspeakable that any American or any official of the Government should seek to evade...
...bewildered Italian immigrants sifted through the mill of Ellis Island. One of the number was swarthy, stocky Fortunate Manure, a Sicilian. In the United States Fortunato Manure did not do so badly. He raised a family of seven children, worked as a laborer at various jobs, was able to act enough like a U. S. citizen to get himself a U. S. passport, but the Depression of 1929 left him without a job. One son found work in Philadelphia, the rest of the Manure family in 1931 joined thousands of other disillusioned immigrants and trekked back to Italy...