Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Wheeler amendments to the Federal Trade Commission Act which would empower the Commission to proceed against individuals and corporations exploiting or deceiving the general public whether their practices are unfair to their competitors or not. Sent it to the House...
...seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame the Sit-Down on employers' defiance of his National Labor Relations Act, thus implying that it was up to the Supreme Court to resolve the Labor crisis by a decision on the Act. Not one of the Senate's Sit-Down critics had risen to his challenge. So far as the unpleasant prospect of Senate action on that red-hot issue...
...Indian eyes the feature of this document which permits the white British Governor of any province to act not only with the advice of the local native cabinet but also without their advice or against their advice, is the feature most open to question. In British eyes it means that each white Governor can be trusted to allow each native cabinet all proper latitude and scope toward development in India for the first time of representative democracy, while vigilantly curbing any cabinet activities of an unfortunate or subversive nature...
...Nehru, its operative President, consulted with Congress leaders promptly after the provincial elections. Adopted was a nation-wide policy that no Indian National Congress partyman will accept office in one of the new provincial cabinets unless the British Governor of that province gives and keeps a formal pledge to act only on the advice of the province cabinet-just as the Emperor himself may act only on the advice of the British Cabinet. Last week every British Governor of an Indian province in which the Gandhi Party has a majority refused to give the required pledge. Therefore, in provinces comprising...
...wrote the checks for Fritz Reiner's beautiful, expensive Tristan, his Rosenkavalier that critics called the best U. S. opera of the season. Last week operagoers from all over the East headed again for Philadelphia's Academy of Music to hear sung in English two one-act premieres* that had cost...