Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought up his noble Resolution only when it was hammered into him that his blanket cash-&-carry law, with which he proposes to replace that part of the Neutrality Act which expired last week, would serve only to help Japan at China's expense, just as the old Neutrality had done...
NLRB and the Wagner Act sorely need a butter patter. Up to now, NLRB has applied a drastic statute so literally that it has accumulated a fine roster of enemies. By his own inclination and by instruction from the President, Dr. Leiserson proposes to continue literal enforcement of collective bargaining, minus the harsh words now characteristic of NLRB. If his placating presence fails to smooth down A. F. of L., Business and hostile Congressmen, the Administration may even enlarge NLRB, or as a last resort sacrifice Chairman Warren Madden and co-Member Edwin Smith in order to save the Wagner...
Sessions of the German Reichstag have been few and far between since the Nazis came to power. In the last six years obedient Nazi deputies have been called together only ten times and on each occasion for only one purpose: to act as a sounding board while Führer Adolf Hitler solemnly explains some high Nazi policy to his nation and the world...
...voyage expansively. Specially outfitted suites were being built amidships last week for the King and Queen. To lessen rolling and pitching the ship will carry additional water ballast. The westbound voyage to Quebec is expected to take nine days. The 9,100-ton cruisers Southampton and Glasgow will act as escort...
...Acting as a Regency for the King in his absence will be a Council of State composed of those adults next in line of succession to the Throne. Under the Regency Act of 1937 these would be the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester, the King's brothers; Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, sister of the King; and Princess Arthur of Connaught, granddaughter of Edward VII, cousin of George VI. Queen Elizabeth will also nominally be a member of the Council according to the Regency Act, even though, as in this case, she is absent from Great Britain with...