Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male colleagues, argued the Government's right to use its power of eminent domain for any "projects which benefit the health, the morals, and the general welfare of the people." In Washington, PWAdministrator Ickes was undecided about taking the case to the Supreme Court. But he proposed to push his program as best he could by direct purchase, by getting states & cities to condemn desired land. TVA. Famed has grown Federal District Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama for his rulings against the New Deal. Last winter, while expressly avoiding an opinion on TVA's constitutionality, he declared...
...Invasion of sovereign rights has been in progress for centuries!" blazed the Dictator. "Where is there a nation today which during its history has not invaded the sovereign rights of others? Take the United States! How did you push your frontier back...
...enacted. After five days of stewing President Roosevelt summoned Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner, Senator Harrison, Majority Leader Robinson and Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee to the White House. After nearly three hours' debate, Senator Robinson emerged to announce that the President had decided to push the tax program through this session of Congress. He proposed to attach it to a joint resolution extending certain "nuisance" taxes which must be passed this week to avoid their expiration...
...purchasing agent; Director of the Budget Daniel W. Bell-and along with them Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hopkins. For works relief was not a departmental effort. When Franklin Roosevelt took personal charge, the whole Administration was in-the whole New Deal was going over the top in its big push to be out of the breadlines before Election...
...Tonight," he cried, "I invited the laborer and the farmer, the small business man and the small merchant, the disorganized of every class, each to grasp the spear shaft of union, the shaft of solidarity, and with perfectly timed thrusts, with amalgamated strength, to push that spear point through the breastplate of our common ills into the very heart of the concentration of wealth...