Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the President's South American friends, who had flown up to attend the inauguration but was delayed by storm in Santo Domingo. In quick succession followed other important matters: the President asked Congress to extend the expiring Reciprocal Trade Act; Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee popped up with a new neutrality bill; hard-headed Walter Runciman, proprietor of the Isle of Eigg and president of the British Board of Trade, arrived with his wife to spend the week-end-quite unofficially...
...hoped that on the basis of this service ways and means will be found of reaching the brilliant student at all high schools, no matter how remote. Thus the plan, will fundamentally, extend the principle already put into practice by the Harvard National Scholarships through which it is hoped to bring the leading minds of the country to Cambridge
...settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief). He ticked off recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that...
...matter less than a week old was no less surprising than the vote by 150 lawyers-delegates deciding that some of the things they were doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal judicial posts...
...seas last week were 10,254 tons of tin bound for U. S. ports to be combined or converted into can coatings, automobile bearings, tooth fillings, gun metal, tin foil. At the same time, in Brussels, the discreet and powerful gentlemen whose companies mined this tin were agreeing to extend for five years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke up the agreement last year by demanding...