Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content to guess, Republican Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...
...occasion of the dedication of the A. E. F.'s war memorials. Thereafter he returned to Washington hoping he would not have to attend to another international affair, the war in China. Attending to it would mean recognizing that war exists within the meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely made up their minds not to know anything about any Sino-Japanese bloodletting, for declaring a Neutrality Act embargo would deprive defending China of needed supplies, have little effect on Japan. Rather than kick old friend John Chinaman when he was down, Franklin Roosevelt...
Passed by the Michigan Legislature last June was a broad new labor statute, inaccurately referred to as a "Little Wagner Act." Among the provisions of the law was a ban on: 1) mass picketing which obstructed "or otherwise interfered" with entrance to a striking plant; 2) picketing which obstructed public highways or 3) picketing by people not directly involved in the strike. This was not precisely what Labor-loving Governor Murphy wanted but he pronounced the measure a long step toward industrial peace...
...Royal Family, Deputies, Senators and diplomats. Here last year, upon the death of Fuad I, the President of the Barlman held up for all to see the envelope into which 13 years before His Late Majesty had sealed the names of three Egyptians whom he wished to act as Regents during the minority of the present King. A flashlight and a magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker in officially determining that the seals were authentic, intact. As he fumbled, the Barlman grew more & more excited, Deputies and Senators shouting their advice until finally the Egyptian President declared himself...
...Tokyo members of the Japanese Parliament, when they anxiously inquired whether President Roosevelt was going to decide that a state of war existed in North China and invoke the Neutrality Act against both belligerents, were told by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that "apparently" such is not his intention...