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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief). He ticked off recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that this task of Executive management has reached the point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling." Housing...
...backed by many peace lovers in Congress, also provide for mobilizing practically all the resources of the U. S. for use in war.- Not accidental is it that members of the most peace-passionate Congress in U. S. history appear already at bellicose odds over amendments to the Neutrality Act...
...appeal was the best possible preparation of the public for such a constitutional amendment or limitation of the Court's power as other New Dealers had hastily proposed. The political opportunity for taking such measures may well be an adverse decision on the Wagner Labor Relations Act or similar New Deal measures. The Court, however, must now dread taking such a step far more than if the President had taken a threatening tone. For now the Court itself rather than the President will appear to be forcing the issue. By his message to Congress Franklin Roosevelt outflanked the position...
First U. S. wage earner to be registered for a Social Security Act pension at 65 was a 23-year-old Princeton graduate who remarked: "It's a long way off" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week the first U. S. wage earner to apply for a pension was one Ernest Ackerman, for 33 years a motorman for Cleveland Railway Co., who became 65 on Jan. 2. His wages for Jan. 1, day the pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total...
Characterizing President Roosevelt's message on governmental re-organization as an "act of rare political courage," Arhur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, in an exclusive statement yesterday, declared that the proposals advocated by the President would "meet with the approval of all well-informed students of public administration...