Word: amends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of the Polish frontiers; the problem of Finland, of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; he has no profound ideas about the Balkans or Eastern Europe or the Near East or China. In general he seems content to take whatever proposals the White House and the State Department send down, amend them to suit the Senate's temper that week, and pass them...
With this agreement on principle, Congress is not apt to be urged to repeal renegotiation. The question is how to amend it without emasculating...
...Asked Congress to amend the organic act of Puerto Rico to permit that impoverished island to elect its own Governor, revealed that he had set up an advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin...
...undoubtedly prepared to draw back if the Rommel line was too strong. In that event there would be no victor; there would be another stalemate. On the third day of assault the British had neither drawn back nor advanced very far. Nor had General Montgomery seen fit to amend his order of the first day: "Destroy Rommel and his army. We have won the first round-we have beat the enemy to the starting post. Victory should swing...
...defense problem is double: not enough defense production and too much idle capacity victimized by defense priorities. Said C.I.O., "Within the next few weeks the nation will be shocked at the amount of 'priority unemployed.' " Senator O'Mahoney dropped a bill in the hopper that would amend the priorities law in order "to prevent bankruptcy for thousands of small manufacturers." From mouth to mouth passed OPM's most striking statistic: 75% of defense contracts have gone to 56 big firms...