Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, McAdoo rarely makes a speech (his voice is high, squeaky) except on behalf of his pet project: no Panama Canal tolls for intercoastal shipping. In Washington, he is considered a greatly diminished public figure, but still a shrewd political opportunist. Popularly supposed to telephone the White House before casting a vote, he has voted for: Emergency banking legislation, legalizing 3.2 beer (he was a Dry favorite in 1924), 25? limitation on veterans' pension cuts (1933): Gold Restriction Act, Bankhead Cotton Act (1934); Wagner Act (1935); Wagner Housing Act, Neutrality Act, taxation of Federal tax exempt securities, Naval expansion...
...bill to do precisely that is the joint pet project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...
...chance of passing $40,000,000,000 by this time next year, an increase of $20,000,000,000 since Franklin Roosevelt took office. Spending was by all odds the biggest job performed by the 75th Congress. Its other work done: Wages 6 Hours, To give the President his pet piece of legislation. Congress last week passed a compromise bill (TIME, June 20) fixing minimum wages at 25^ an hour, maximum hours at 44 a week, providing for a 40^-40-hour standard after seven years, with flexible provisions mak-ing it tolerable to the industrial South which had kept...
...architect-engineer and a middle-aged ruler frequently stay up until 4 a. m. discussing changes, poring over designs. The two conferees are 33-year-old Professor Albert Speer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They determine in these all-night conferences the details of mystic, dreamy Adolf Hitler's pet building project-the reconstruction of Berlin, the remaking of a not-too-beautiful city into a worthy, magnificent capital of Greater Germany...
That a gorilla can lick a heavyweight prizefighter-even three prizefighters-was a pet theory of the late great Journalist Arthur Brisbane. Last week, onetime (1926-28) Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney focused attention on his sports editorship of the new Connecticut Nutmeg (TIME, May 30) by reviving the argument...