Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doing his level best to avoid being branded an intractable Republican diehard, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg recently urged President Roosevelt to seek the item veto-power to strike out individual items in big appropriations bills. Last week in his budget message (see p. 19), without mention of the senior Michigan Senator, President Roosevelt asked for the item-veto power, added with unusual deference to the Constitution: "A respectable difference of opinion exists as to whether . . . item-veto power could be given to the President by legislation or whether a Constitutional amendment would be necessary. I strongly recommend that...
...Post's editors follow a make-up routine which is unstated. It is, however, inflexible within its limits: four articles, four or five fiction-pieces, editorial, Post Scripts, Keeping Posted (writers' who's who). The chief rule in selecting the stories and articles is to avoid duplication. It is not standard policy to run two like stories in one week (a Western is considered a duplicate of any costume story), or two similar articles or an article which echoes a story's scene or subject...
...loan-on this same collateral-to be due in 1942, the B. & O. announced that it had been unable to borrow from any other source and that "with these funds the company will be in a position to maintain its property to the present standard of efficiency, avoid the reduction in maintenance forces which might otherwise be required, and assure the employment of maintenance forces of not less than 5,000,000 man-hours...
...King, when advised to act by one of His Majesty's Governments, always acts as advised is, of course, the essence of the Sovereign's constitutional duty. The British Cabinet was certainly hopeful that there would yet be found some loophole by which King George could avoid placing himself in the inconsistent position of recognizing Vittorio Emanuele as "Emperor" at the Irish Legation in Rome and refusing to do so at the British Embassy. Tartly the Manchester Guardian commented: "Mr. de Valera is steadily developing his theory that while the King is divisible, Ireland...
...Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated $21,000,000 U. S. inheritance tax her estate would lose at her death...