Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected and re-elected a bald, magnetic, music-loving Irishman. For Representative William P. ("Billy") Connery Jr., House Labor Committee Chairman, appealed to a big majority in the shoe-manufacturing, textile towns north of Boston. Moreover he was famous as co-sponsor of the Wagner-Connery National Labor Relations Act, of the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill...
...Deal. Eight days after his resignation took effect, Lawyer L&233;vitt had popped up with a petition demanding that Nominee Hugo Black prove his eligibility to sit on the Supreme Court. Mr. L&233;vitt contended that Senator Black, by voting for the Supreme Court Retirement Act, had helped increase the emoluments of that office contrary to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution...
Holcombe disagreed on this point, as he said that "I should think the Congress might modify the act as even this short time has shown that it is not effective." He went on to point out that "our position in the world is such that whatever we do, or even if we do nothing, it will affect a foreign war" and there can be no true neutrality...
Subjects for the trials, open only to upperclassmen, are two, "Resolved, That the incorporation of labor unions should be made compulsory," and "Resolved: That the United States should immediately apply the provisions of the Neutrality Act in the Sino-Japanese situation...
...brief investigation" is the base of an open charge by two undergraduates that last spring $2700 was raised under the false pretense of sending an ambulance to the territory of the Spanish Government. Obtaining money under false pretenses is a criminal act punishable by imprisonment, and the authors of such a written accusation must prove their case or be prepared to defend themselves against a suit for criminal libel...