Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week word buzzed among the newsreel editors in Manhattan that The March of Time proposed to re-enact the Hauptmann trial in its first screen release. Honest denials by The March of Time were met by skeptical snorts. Determined to score a resounding beat, the newsreels sprang their trial scenes on the screen simultaneously with the premiere of The March of Time...
...tell his wife that NRA has cracked down, that he must post $5,000 bail or go to jail. To jail he goes; after 18 days, out on bail he comes. Then to his aid go eminent volunteer counsel-David Aiken Reed and John William Davis-who personally re-enact their conferences with their client following his conviction in Federal Court (TIME, Dec. 17). And The March of Time camera takes the Perkins case to the doorstep of the Supreme Court...
Three months ago some 2,000,000 citizens had put their names to petitions urging Congress to enact the Plan into law (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week Dr. Townsend claimed 25,000,000 such signatures. The 644 Townsend Clubs of last October had become 25,000. At last week's Washington rally Oregon's Representative William A. Ekwall spoke the mind of many & many a Congressman when he declared: "About 120,000 people in my district have signed a Townsend petition. When I first heard of this I laughed at it. Then I got the smile...
...Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley Act of 1933 and to create the TVA thereunder...
...interpret Mr. Untermyer's attitude as hostile to the entire bill. During the lunch recess they mentioned this to Mr. Untermyer. When he returned to the witness stand after lunch, he declared: "I should consider it nothing short of a national catastrophe if this Congress should fail to enact stock exchange regulation at this time. I would take the bill as it is rather than see it passed by. I should like to see it modified, of course, but if it can't be, why then it should be passed. The time is for control...