Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most ominous remark yet by its Chief Executive, Congress pondered that word: War. The conduct of foreign relations is a duty solemnly imposed upon the President by the Constitution. The power to declare war rests solely with the Congress, but the conduct of foreign relations, the thinking and acting that preserves peace or leads up to war, are the President's lawful and awful responsibility. Last week the senior house of Congress began discussion of that specific legal harness for the President which is called the Neutrality Act: whether to extend, revise, or scrap...
...Secretary Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...
...room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...
Words are of use, but they are not enough. With congress lies the next move--casting off of the shackles of the neutrality act. It will mean a fight to the finish with the isolationists who, though well intentioned, would prevent America from taking steps in her own defense; but it will be worth the effort if some enactment along the lines of the recent Stimson suggestions--combines, perhaps, with certain of the Pittman cash-and-carry provisions--can be made. Only thus, ion fact, can America make more likely her chance of remaining at peace...
Undergraduates will act as chairmen of each of the tables, and the chairman of the Social Security and Relief table will be a student from Harvard...