Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These glimmerings did not mean that the Government had adopted a consistent policy. The day before Paul McNutt asked for a national manpower law, Secretary of Labor Perkins, attending a Plumbers & Steam Fitters meeting in Cleveland, told reporters sharply: "I disagree that it is inevitable that Congress must enact legislation which will enable the War Manpower Commission to regulate the movement and assignment of workers in war industry...
...supposed to. It was the 90th anniversary of the signing of Argentina's articles of confederation, and Buenos Aires' Governor Rodolfo Moreno, who dearly loves a spectacle, had invited Acting President Ramón S. Castillo, all provincial governors and many another bigwig to re-enact the ceremony. To the tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Jurist Leopoldo Melo, onetime President General Agustin...
...mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
Next will come March 15, dreaded more deeply than ever Caesar dreamed. By late spring, Congress will probably enact a withholding tax. By midsummer scarcely a citizen will be left untouched, the golden goose will be laying its Treasury eggs like shad...
Last week President Avila Camacho called a special session of Congress for February to go still further-to enact a series of conservative reforms. Marked for revision were: the General Law of Labor (by outlawing what the President calls "crazy strikes" and increasing the Government's power to intervene in labor disputes); the Law of National Education (by abolishing compulsory Socialist education and giving a share of public education to the Catholic Church); the law implementing Article 27 of the Constitution on nationalization of the subsoil (by modifying the present ban on the possession of oil concessions by foreigners...