Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament sat. The Government asked for war powers-powers for the King to issue decree laws, for the Government to confiscate property, order arrests, search premises, control railways, conduct secret trials, impose financial regulations. Debate began. At 5:30 p. m. Prime Minister Chamberlain, his old-man's voice steady, started his speech. If war came in spite...
...were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled the hard eyes of Boss Hayes, 56. "It was in the cards," he gulped, but he strode out of court with his chin...
Every year after Congress goes home, a few members remain to conduct Investigations, between-sessions sparring shows, in the big marble-pilastered caucus rooms of the House and Senate office buildings at Washington. The inquisitors are financed by their colleagues (out of the Treasury) to improve the public weal and make political capital. Above are the three main attractions scheduled for the dog days, the Dies show beginning this week...
...four votes (43-to-39) in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt won his bitter fight with Congress over control of the country's' money. But the end of that fight only cleared the field for a mightier one: over control of the country's conduct in case of war overseas. As 34 diehard-isolationists massed in Senator Johnson's lair under the Capitol rotunda to sign a manifesto, lines formed for the longest tussle of all between the 32nd President and the 76th Congress...
...show for their pains except a remote legal cloud hanging over the act. Since it was an act only to extend that which died before the act was passed, could the act resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy ruled it could and Franklin Roosevelt signed the act determined to conduct the nation's monetary affairs on that assumption. Republican Senators Taft and Austin argued to the last that no resurrection was possible, but had to admit the only way to prove their point was by a court review. This could be had only in the event that some...