Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign relations, the thinking and acting that preserves peace or leads up to war, are the President's lawful and awful responsibility. Last week the senior house of Congress began discussion of that specific legal harness for the President which is called the Neutrality Act: whether to extend, revise, or scrap it (see p. 18). But everyone knew that, Neutrality Act or no Neutrality Act, the nation's predominant emotions and judgment would in the end determine its international course. By last week two opposed bodies of thought and emotion, both based on the premise that...
With the recent Congressional appropriation of $5,000,000 to teach 20,000 college students how to fly, the C.A.A. will extend an experiment already in operation at M.I.T. and 12 other colleges throughout the country...
...telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...
...Economist James Douglas Brown's Advisory Council (TIME, Dec. 26). That council, representing Government, Labor and the Public, recommended that in order to hold down the reserve, Social Security call a temporary halt to rate increases, begin payments of full benefits in 1940 instead of 1942, and extend them to more people. Last week, in a report to the House Ways & Means Committee, Henry Morgenthau said nothing about speeding up payments. But he did approve another suggestion: to give up the idea of "full reserve" and substitute a much smaller "contingency fund...
...been restricted to House occupants, who have been able to secure equipment and the like from the H.A.A. Men living outside have been unable to participate in this program and without doubt feel keenly about it. As a step towards ameliorating the position of the "out-houser" why not extend the House athletic program so that all undergrads may have a chance to take part in it. Mathew Taback...