Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammer home the irreducibility of big Government expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
...President told Congress that the Government's real-estate holdings (parks, forests, grazing lands) which constitute one-fifth of all the land in U. S., and were exempted from over $91,000,000 in taxes in 1937, would henceforth be supervised by a nine-man interdepartmental board...
Navy's Plans. Last fortnight Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn and three co-members of a board studying expansion of Naval defense lines recommended immediate establishment or improvement of 15 (out of 41 desired) submarine, destroyer, aircraft and mine bases, in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean. Most dramatic item was a "strong advance fleet base" on the Island of Guam, far westward of the present limit of active operations in the Pacific, only 1,355 miles from Yokohama...
Administrative law is the name lawyers have for rulings of Government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board, to whom "lawmaking" authority is delegated by Congress. With over 100 such agencies functioning today, administrative lawmakers rival judges and legislatures as a nuisance to lawyers. Last week the House of Delegates (legislative body) of the American Bar Association, to which 16% of U. S. lawyers subscribe, convened in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel to discuss two new brands of nuisance insurance...
...same time, the committee revealed that Francis C. Walker, treasurer of the Democratic Party in the 1933 campaign and member of the National Economics Research Board, had given the students his personal endorsement. Bringing 12 or 15 scholars to Harvard, Walker felt, is perhaps one of the most fundamental contributions that America could make towards promoting Latin-American friendship...