Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend when Franklin Roosevelt wore short pants. Like John Llewellyn Lewis, he is a Welsh miner's son. He dug coal, aged 9, in the pits of Pennsylvania. A Sunday school teacher taught him to read. A parson and a lawyer helped him get learning and law, at night. He settled and practiced in Cumberland, a western Maryland mining town. He reached Congress...
Because Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Tydings both belong to the upper class their fight is the Purge's most bitter. Son of a marine engineer who worked at the Army's Aberdeen proving grounds, Millard Tydings became a mechanical engineer, studied law, practiced in Havre de Grace, enlisted as a private the day the U. S. entered the War. He came out a Lieutenant-Colonel...
Defending his 1938 tax law. which President Roosevelt sneered at and refused to sign, the Senator said: "You can't take 80 or 90% of a man's income in Federal taxes and expect him to risk his money in industrial investments. Money is what makes the mare...
...United States." Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, who had cracked down on Internal Revenue workers for contributing to the cause of Senator-reject McAdoo of California (TIME, Aug. 8), huffed, puffed, said such a difference of opinion proved the necessity of rewriting the campaign funds law...
...grace, the General brought Mexico's pistol-toting Congressmen to their feet shouting "Viva!" again & again last week. They saw at once that with almost every word President Cardenas was baiting Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull had laid down in diplomatic terms that it is a violation of international law for Mexico to expropriate without immediate compensation. General Cardenas laid down in non-diplomatic terms that what Mexico has done is "for the greatest good of the greatest number of people," and said that in international law there is no such principle as was cited by the U. S. note...