Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stating his views on the Neutrality Law Hull bore out previous reports that the present act is, on the whole, not unsatisfactory to the administration...
...least of her errors was failure to invite to her royal garden party Minority Leader Charles L. McNary and 50 other Senators. Congress must modify the Neutrality Act before the British can buy U. S. planes during war time...
...statesmen so sure that their cause was just, they were noticeably reluctant to record their votes. Said New Jersey's Eaton: "We ought to stand up and be counted as dignified members of this great body, and not act like a lot of scared cats. . . ." But only 35 wanted a roll-call. In secure anonymity, 237 voted Aye and 95 (who in anonymity could hope to profit nothing) voted No. Then the bill went to the Senate, which can hardly object since the House voted for more Senate clerks...
Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws...
Ever since roly-poly Howard Hopson was caught lobbying against the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, nothing so delights official Washington as seeing his vast Associated Gas & Electric Co. caught off-base. SEC is trying to delist A. G. & E. stock from the New York Curb Exchange because of alleged "false and misleading" statements in its prospectus. Last week its investigation turned up a choice tidbit which SEC promptly speared...