Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows...
...wilfully, deliberately and viciously attempted to nullify the operation of the laws for the punishment of crime in the State of Virginia." Cried Representative Smith: "I do not contend that a judge may be impeached for an honest difference of opinion but I do aver and proclaim that a judge is impeachable who is either, first, so ignorant of the law as to be flagrantly incompetent or, second, who knowing the law, releases on the world a self-confessed murderer of the most vicious type." Stirred to immediate action the House voted (209-to-150) to have its Judiciary Committee...
...gold content of the dollar up to 50 per cent. This power will permit him to cooperate with other powers for the restoration of an international gold standard at a lower level. If no such agreement can be reached at the World Economic Conference, the President will proclaim a devaluation of the dollar to meet that of foreign currencies whose depreciation is hurting U. S. trade...
...Passed (252-110) a resolution authorizing the President to proclaim and enforce an embargo on arms as a means of stifling foreign wars; sent it to the Senate...
...careful investigation showed that canny old Paul von Hindenburg still held two aces up his detachable cuffs: The President still has power to dismiss any or all members of the Cabinet including Handsome Adolf himself. He still remains Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, with sole power to proclaim martial law. The Reichswehr is not yet a Nazi organization. If told to turn Adolf Hitler out of office it could theoretically...