Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unless I am greatly mistaken voters between the ages of 21 and 30 outnumber the older voters. If this is so youth, in the interests of youth, and old people like me, should forget party affiliations and force an amendment to the Constitution. As the law stands, Representatives must be at least 25, Senators at least 30, and Presidents 35 years of age. Only Presidents have to be American born. All should have to be American born and anyone who has reached the age of 21 should be eligible to any office in the gift of the voters...
...They first passed a law making it mandatory that once fighting began there could be no attack unless led by a Congressman, no engagement unless a Congressman was present to take charge; or 2) A law was passed making everyone a Congressman, and so not subject to conscription...
...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
...Andrews tripped himself on conflicting interpretations, had to be corrected by his embarrassed subordinates. Southern Congressmen, buttering up Mr. Andrews in Washington, privately advised their employer-constituents to pay no attention to the law. Employers who wanted to comply began to complain, along with Labor, that gentle Elmer Andrews was entirely too gentle. Elmer Andrews reasonably pointed out that his staff of 250 in the field, 451 in Washington was quite inadequate to enforce a law covering 12,600,000 workers. Rebuffed by the White House, worn by a long fight to block crippling amendments at the last session...
Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...