Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Refused to enact a House rider to the $1.2 billion Labor Department and Federal Security Agency appropriations for 1946-47. The rider, which would have withdrawn the protection of the Wagner Act from thousands of U.S. packinghouse and agricultural workers, was sent to a joint Senate-House committee for further discussion...
...conjunction with this fiscal policy, said Finer, the government will probably enact a program of social security, "based on the Beveridge Plan, though going farther in the same direction...
...years Canada has had on its books a national civilian-conscription law somewhat like the one that Franklin Roosevelt unsuccessfully asked Congress to enact in the U.S. At first timid enforcement weakened Canada's law. Now, apparently, N.S.S. officers are beginning to get tough...
...sales tax being notably absent. Said he: "Individual incomes will be approximately 40% higher in the calendar year 1944 than in 1941, after payment of all taxes. Corporate profits after taxes are running at an alltime high. . . . Let us face the fact- the failure thus far to enact an adequate fiscal program has aggravated the difficulties of maintaining economic stabilization. . . . The estimates presented in this budget are based on the assumption that the wage and price line will be held...
President Roosevelt's request that Congress enact a National Service Act as part of his five point program excited varied reactions among those Harvard faculty members who could be reached yesterday...