Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago the Administration managed by only 21 votes in the House to beat the proposal by Indiana's Louis Ludlow that the Constitution be altered to require, except in case the U. S. was invaded, a national referendum before Congress could declare war on a foreign power. As revised by the twelve Senators, the proposed amendment would take from Congress the power to declare war except in case of "attack by armed forces, actual or immediately threatened" upon U. S. territory or upon "any country in the Western Hemisphere" threatened by a non-American nation...
...Rarely, except at Presidential inaugurals, does the entire democratic hierarchy of the United States gather under one roof. But so they did last week, in the grey-&-gilt chamber of the House of Representatives, with remarkably few absentees-the President and his executive Cabinet, both bodies of the legislative branch, all eight members of the Supreme Court-to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first session of Congress...
Last week came the turn of Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer, now Secretary of the Treasury, to go up Capitol Hill to explain to an inquisitive if not skeptical Congress the Administration's money plans. Having already announced that the Administration seeks no new taxes (except on Government salaries and securities), Mr. Morgenthau had to get Congress...
...dire day-March 6-on which many a European correspondent predicted war would come to Europe passed by early this week. No ultimatums were delivered, no troops marched (except in Spain), and the dictators even temporarily ceased barking for more land. Instead of being War Week, no week in months had been so generally peaceful in Europe...
Concerning the prospects of the coming season Harlow had little to say except that with sixteen of the twenty-two letter men graduating it was a big chance for the Freshmen. In order that they can get an opportunity to learn the system and to practice by themselves before the members of the Varsity come out, they are getting the call a week early on March...