Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference in the President's oval office, a correspondent asked how far U. S. territorial waters (i, e., maritime frontiers) extend toward Europe. Hot off the bat Franklin Roosevelt answered: as far as U. S. interests require them to go. "Does that reach the Rhine, Mr. President?" Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head and laughed. He was, said he, talking only about salt water...
...ToPoland's President Ignacy Moscicki, Franklin Roosevelt telegraphed that he was "deeply shocked" by German bombings, for the moment withheld reply to Poland's suggestion that the U. S. extend its arms embargo to aggressive Soviet Russia...
...tried to make capital of Hungary's alarm, to smoke Count Csaky out. Said Tibor Eckhardt, head of the Independent Agrarian Party: "Our Foreign Minister once said that we had to demonstrate our loyalty to friendly countries in difficult times. I agree with him, but this loyalty must extend to all our friends. If . . . a German-Polish conflict breaks out, under no circumstances can we interfere." Then he challenged the Government-"Admiral Hoi thy pledged Hungary to independence and neutrality, let the Foreign Minister repeat the pledge...
With his own utility system Willkie set out to do a number of things that the New Deal advocated. To widen the use of electricity one of his first acts was to hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
...beaten Republicans and hard-money Democrats were left with nothing to show for their pains except a remote legal cloud hanging over the act. Since it was an act only to extend that which died before the act was passed, could the act resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy ruled it could and Franklin Roosevelt signed the act determined to conduct the nation's monetary affairs on that assumption. Republican Senators Taft and Austin argued to the last that no resurrection was possible, but had to admit the only way to prove their point was by a court review...