Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Vic Donahey's majority (5 Democrats, 1 Republican) : "the main purposes of the TVA act have been honestly and efficiently performed . . . [Dr. Morgan's charges] are without foundation, not supported by evidence, and made without due consideration of the facts...
...under the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 was the office of the Comptroller General, with twofold duty of okaying Government expenditures before they are made and auditing them afterwards.* First recipient of this 15-year appointment was crusty Republican John R. McCarl, whose term did not end until 1936. So crusty was "General" McCarl that long before the New Deal spenders became his greatest antagonists, he was famed as "The Watchdog of the Treasury." Since 1933, Franklin Roosevelt has twice tried, twice failed to draw the Comptroller General's teeth through Reorganization...
...Madison, Wis., Mr. Padway bellowed as though he himself were on the horns. The Legislature of his home State, in step with the rightward trend of U. S. politics, was considering bills to amend Wisconsin's famed, liberal State Labor Code of 1931 and its Little Wagner Act of 1937, which Joe Padway helped to draft. Having yet to emasculate Mr. Padway's State Labor Relations Act, Wisconsin's newly conservative Legislature last week made over the Labor Code, curtailed the right to strike or picket, and reopened the way for court injunctions in Labor disputes...
...Padway was too busy in Washington to bellow last week. He was hard at work for A. F. of L., goring the National Labor Relations Act...
Daddy on Horns. Lawyer Padway and his boss, A. F. of L. President William Green, denounce any suggestion that they are doing for the Wagner Act approximately what farm and industrial conservatives are doing to Wisconsin's labor laws. To Green, Padway & Co. the Wagner Act is pretty much all right but the National Labor Relations Board is all wrong. So saying, they last week urged Congress to rewrite the Act...