Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without a Constitutional quiver in his freckled right hand Franklin Roosevelt last week signed the Labor Disputes Bill. Then, lighting a cigaret, he leaned back and dictated a statement to the public: "This act defines, as a part of our substantive law, the right of self-organization of employes in industry. ... It may eventually eliminate one major cause of labor disputes but it will not stop all labor disputes. . . . Accepted by labor, management and the public, with a sense of sober responsibility and of willing cooperation, however, it should serve as an important step toward the achievement of just...
...packing bags for soldiers & sailors at Christmas. Philadelphia barkeepers misjudged Christian Endeavor from the beginning last week when they put out placards WELCOME C.E. Many a C.E. delegate walked by such bars wearing a pasteboard badge, WE DRINK MILK. NOT BEER. And Convention Hall janitors had precious few cigaret butts to sweep up after meetings...
Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
President Roosevelt rocked back in his swivel chair, lighted a cigaret, jestingly asked the assembled reporters if they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes...
...picked up the opinion, began to speak with great emphasis.) The Court ruled that no matter what kind of emergency the country gets into, all laws must be strictly constitutional. It says "extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional powers." (He put down the decision, lighted another cigaret.) That's a very broad statement. During the War Congress passed a lot of extraordinary legislation but none of it was argued before the Supreme Court...