Word: amends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amend your article which appeared in the Medicine column of the July 11 issue, entitled "Venom for Pain,'' to point out that the treatment as applied in its entirety has no ill effects and serves for speedy rehabilitation...
...hopes to amend the Wagner Act in order to clip NLRB's powers (TIME, July 25). The position taken by A. F. of L. this week indicates that it wants nothing less than an amendment to derive C. I. O. of a place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...
Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within...
...home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi...
...Connell's bill would amend the present Neutrality Act, wihch applies an embargo on war materials to both sides in the present Spanish and Chinese wars, so as to limit the embargo to the aggressor nation and allow suppies to be sent to the victims of aggression...