Word: enact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After every Democratic depression in the past, they have called us back. The Democrats have proved again and again that they can conceive high ideals and enact far-reaching reforms. They have proved, perhaps, that they have more ideas than we have...
...Bryan had more ideas than McKinley. Debs had more ideas than Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt has more ideas than Coolidge had. They have ideas, but they do not seem to be able to make the ideas work. They can enact reforms, but they cannot give jobs...
Wages & Hours. "I am again expressing my hope that the Congress will enact at this session a wage-and-hour bill ... to insure a better distribution of our prosperity...
Harvard upheld the Negative of the proposition, "Res. that Congress should enact a regional power program embodying the principles of the T. V. A." in encounters with John Marshall College in Jersey City on Sunday evening April 3 and with William and Mary University in Williamsburg on Wednesday, April 6. The John Marshall debate was lost and there was no decision in the William and Mary contest. There was also a half-hour discussion of the "Little T. V. A.'s" question with John Marshall on Sunday afternoon over WMCA and the Inter-city network...
...Lewis does not say. But in apportioning the blame, he goes back only to June 1937. Since then: ". . . Neither industry nor Government has come forth with constructive proposals designed to meet the problems of the depression. The Federal Congress, lacking adequate or competent leadership . . . has failed to devise or enact a single statute that would cause a glimmer of hope to penetrate the minds of millions of despairing Americans...