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Word: nationalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pains except a remote legal cloud hanging over the act. Since it was an act only to extend that which died before the act was passed, could the act resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy ruled it could and Franklin Roosevelt signed the act determined to conduct the nation's monetary affairs on that assumption. Republican Senators Taft and Austin argued to the last that no resurrection was possible, but had to admit the only way to prove their point was by a court review. This could be had only in the event that some one claims damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barter | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...increased silver price meant an added $9,000.000 annual subsidy to U. S. miners. As soon as the Senate voted, the Sunshine Mine in Senator Borah's Idaho (nation's largest producer) announced it would reopen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barter | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...believe in the real neutrality of our nation in the case of any armed conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 34 in a Lair | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...belonged to unions-mostly in the building and allied trades, mostly A. F. of L.-walked off their jobs. In some places they quit spontaneously, in most they were called off by their union officials. Twenty thousand, 50,000, 75,000, daily the number of strikers rose throughout the nation. In their own minds, the men were protesting against their longer working hours. Actually, their leaders were trying to coerce Congress by direct action to correct a situation which they thought would provide an argument for employers in private industry (especially building contractors) to depress wages. They regarded their strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Mutiny on the Bounty | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...bill, jammed through by Congress at the last minute, is one of the most vicious pieces of legislation ever palmed off on the people of this nation. . . . This fight will be fought to a finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Mutiny on the Bounty | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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