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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lobbying-When James Weldon Johnson retired to teach literature at Fisk University in 1930, Walter White succeeded to his $5,000 job and a Federal anti-lynching law officially became Item No. 1 on the N. A. A. C. P. schedule. The White argument, ceaselessly drummed into Negroes and white legislators alike, was that while talk is long, the rope is short ?that in the 13 years between the Dyer filibuster and the filibuster that wrecked the Wagner-Costigan bill, mobs had lynched with practical impunity more than 290 U. S. Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Doing his level best to avoid being branded an intractable Republican diehard, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg recently urged President Roosevelt to seek the item veto-power to strike out individual items in big appropriations bills. Last week in his budget message (see p. 19), without mention of the senior Michigan Senator, President Roosevelt asked for the item-veto power, added with unusual deference to the Constitution: "A respectable difference of opinion exists as to whether . . . item-veto power could be given to the President by legislation or whether a Constitutional amendment would be necessary. I strongly recommend that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Item Veto | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Well did such a request suit a budget message. Congressmen often load an important appropriation bill with pork, leaving the President the choice of taking bad with good, or nothing. With the item veto, now possessed by the Governors of most of the States, he could separate the sheep from the porkers. Proposed on a non-partisan basis, the item veto seemed to have a fair chance of passage-an event which would make life measurably easier for any President who undertakes to balance the budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Item Veto | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...first item declared that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to elevate Sir Robert to the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The second announced that the Prime Minister had caused to be created for Sir Robert the new post of Chief Adviser to the Foreign Office. His duties, according to this unusual official announcement, will be "advising the Secretary of State [Anthony Eden] upon all major questions of policy concerning foreign affairs . . . and representing the Foreign Office on any occasions, whether at home or abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vansittart & Honors | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Governor's message to the Legislature in which he reaffirmed his support of the Curley law, Mather said: "My only reply to Hurley is that so many people disagree with his conclusion that the Teachers' Oath is in-offensive' that in all probability it will be an item of considerable importance in the campaign for election of Governor in the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY SEEKS REPEAL OF TEACHERS' OATH LAW | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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