Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations moved swiftly to build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies, of developing untapped resources, of acting generally like Good Neighbors...
Bullitt: "The matter is simply this: They haven't enough details or material from their reports in order to act, and they need it for their Neutrality Bill fight...
...quietly closed that chapter last week had begun to write it in 1935, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted the first, misnamed Neutrality Act. In 1937 they had tied further hobbles on Presidential discretion. Last week, counting any sacrifice cheap that would keep the U. S. out of war, these men-consigned the freedom of the seas to the history books...
Senator Pittman's Isolationist foes were annoyed at the isolationism of the Pittman bill. But they found one good target-the fact that the bill was credit-and-carry, not cash-and-carry. They shouted that this would modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser...
Discredited Mr. Johnson canceled an engagement to address the American Legion in Chicago (see p. 17) and dashed to Washington, where his colleagues were waiting to see whether he would resign. When he showed himself at the War Department, he did not act or look like a whipped pup in the doghouse. He apparently had a chance to subside into the War Department's No. 2 position, no discernible chance to replace Harry Woodring when & if the President finds a satisfactory successor. Attorney General Frank Murphy was offered the War portfolio, turned it down. An oft-mentioned possibility...