Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference next morning, the President put on a vigorous act, a stern lecture on the need for judiciary reform. He was severe with the Supreme Court. It had left important New Deal cases undecided. It had refused to prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company...
...bills introduced into each House of Congress to carry out the program provided that the regional agencies could create corporations for that purpose. They also provided that "No person shall be appointed a regional planning director unless he professes a belief in the feasibility and wisdom of this act...
...With State Department officials all atwitter over the possibility of Germany and Italy plunging into the Spanish civil war and over the advisability of including them, under the Neutrality Act's arms embargo and other prohibitions, as "belligerents," the President had Secretary Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis to a luncheon conference. They decided to do nothing...
...organize the ore mines in upper Michigan and Minnesota, to shut off Republic's ore supply. Representative John T. Bernard of Eveleth, Minn., one-time miner, fireman and labor leader-who signalized his appearance in Congress last January by delaying passage of the Neutrality Act until the Mar Cantabrico had sailed with a cargo of arms for Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. 18)-hastened home from the Capital to help C.I.O. organize the iron-miners...
Also this new group will consider questions relating to managerial competitions, as well as initiating action on new insignia awards, and having supervision over all cheerleaders. Further it shall have power to appoint committees to provide for the entertainment of visiting teams and committees to act in any advisory capacity...