Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boots. President Roosevelt was proposing to take all postmasters out of politics and put their jobs on "a strictly civil service basis." For this purpose Post-master-General Farley had prepared a sweeping executive order which the President signed along with a recommendation that the next session of Congress enact permanent legislation to the same end. Without bothering to study the President's order closely Democratic leaders throughout the land groaned in loud dismay at what they took to mean the summary loss of their best patronage. But still with them was a helpful device known as the Rule...
Illinois was prompted to enact its tax after Indiana had adopted a similar excise, thus diminishing the chances that Illinoisians might do some of their shopping across the border. In Pennsylvania in August 1932 a general sales tax of 1% was put into effect for six months. Pennsylvanians hoped to draw off $12,000,000 into their Treasury by this means...
...ready," announced New York's Governor Lehman as the State Legislature settled down to enact a liquor-control law. Tammany Hall, caught by an alert press trying to mix beer and politics, fell in behind the Lehman control plan...
...sooner had Congress passed his emergency banking bill last week than President Roosevelt executed his second bold stroke in two days by asking it to enact such breath-taking proposals. His demand in a special message for "courageous, frank and prompt action" was predicated upon the necessity for balancing a budget more than $1,000,000,000 out of plumb. His economy reforms were designed to save at least half that sum. The measure giving him dictatorial power over veterans' expenditures and Federal salaries was entitled: "A Bill to Maintain the Credit of the United States...
...Pennsylvania Station one morning this week. The Metropolitan Opera Company, its future still undecided,* was on the way to Baltimore. There pretty Lily Pons would exhibit her clear, high trills in Rigpletto. Graceful Lucrezia Bori would sing in Pagliacci. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett would stain himself brown and enact Emperor Jones. The Company's famed Wagnerians would sing in Tristan und Isolde...