Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week's end as the harassed leaders of the National Education Association prepared to draft a bill, it appeared that the battle over Federal aid had merely been shifted to Washington...
...Washington a committee of the National Education Association, after seeing President Roosevelt, indicated that the President would support his Committee's recommendations. And in Congress, Senator Harrison prepared to amend his Federal aid bill to conform to the Reeves proposals...
...much suspicion. His particular jurisdiction is seafaring men, which he claims by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring up a first-class...
...Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill. The Senators complained that their impersonators on the stage called forth boos & hisses. As their remarks came straight out of the Congressional Record, they admitted they had not been misquoted, but insisted they were not quoted fairly. In the play Byrd and Tydings seek to amend the bill, restricting costs to a top $4,000-per-family unit. In Congress the bill was amended, became law with a top $5,000-per-family unit...
Accordingly, last week the anti-lynching filibuster was interrupted to allow the Senate to pass its first real piece of business this session-a bill to amend the 1934 Housing Act. Mortgages were to be guaranteed up to 90%, interest was reduced to 5% and building of multiple dwellings for investment was encouraged. Pointedly omitted was the specification that prevailing local wages must be paid on the jobs. Pointedly, handsome young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge-another great friend of Labor-had proposed it, but in the end the Senate adopted (42-40) the amendment without the prevailing wage clause...