Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt took his pen in hand, noted that he was "constrained by the record submitted" to veto the bill for Private McHam's honorable discharge. Thus for the first time since he took office a year ago did the President exercise his constitutional power to thwart the will of Congress...
Hsinking (Changchun), new capital of Manchukuo, settled down and sobered up after an exhausting fortnight. With great relief Emperor Kang Teh put aside his dragon robes, wandered about his garden in a U. S. sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...
President Roosevelt sat at his desk facing a dozen White House newshawks. Secretary Morgenthau, Mrs. Morgenthau, Stephen T. Early and Marguerite Le Hand looked over his shoulder. On the blotter before him lay a copy of H.R. 6976. Smiling, he picked up a pen and wrote: "Approved. Franklin D. Roosevelt.'' Thus did the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 become...
...desk with the same bill before him. Secretary Morgenthau, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, Professor George ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank and Professor James Harvey Rogers looked gravely on. Cameras clicked and newsreel men cranked as the President made motions with a pen. Thus did the U. S. get pictures of what the signing of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 did not look like...
...Taking pen in hand at Rome, Benito Mussolini last month also scratched with such vigor on the same subject that last week the Japanese Embassy was officially and fruitlessly protesting. "There is no doubt that Japan is going through a period of 'dynamic imperialism,' " wrote the dynamic Duce. "Two armies confront each other at the frontiers of Russia and Manchuria. The peril of war exists. This event does not interest only Russia and Japan. It also involves China and the United States and, directly or indirectly, England, France, Italy and Holland...