Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June 1, 1931); 2) he had snubbed Franklin D. Roosevelt when the Democratic presidential nominee was campaigning in Los Angeles last year (TIME, Oct. 3); 3) he had turned the police department into a corps of "super-snoopers." In defeat Mayor-reject Porter last week threatened to hang on to his job on the ground that Mayor-elect Shaw was not a U. S. citizen. Born in Canada 50 years ago, Frank Shaw was brought to the U. S. at the age of 5 by his father, a pioneer homesteader in Kansas...
...recalled was the fact that in 1918 the Court had voided (5-10-4) a law designed to abolish child labor by prohibiting its products from interstate commerce. Because the Black Bill struck at current working hours by the same oblique method, its critics were confident the Court would reject it as unconstitutional. Its friends argued that the Court's personnel had changed since 1918 and so had the social temper of its decisions...
...Facts. In Italy Opposition Deputies kept their seats and voted against the Mussolini Government until June 15. 1924, when the "Aventine" Opposition withdrew. Since 1928 Il Duce has had a parliament made up exclusively of yes-men elected by the Italian people whose only alternative is to reject the entire slate of Deputies presented to them as candidates by the Fascist regime...
...TIME, Feb. 27), recommendations which include withdrawal of Japanese troops from territory they have seized and nonrecognition by League countries of Japan's puppet state, "Manchukuo." Before a vote was taken Chinese Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen accepted the recommendations with gusto, heard Japan's Matsuoka reject them with fierce eloquence: ''Manchuria belongs to us by right! Read your history. We recovered it from Russia! We made it what it is today!" Suddenly and significantly up popped Foreign Minister Dr. Zaunius of Lithuania...
Died, Godfrey G. Goodwin, 60, U. S. Representative-reject from Minnesota, Republican; instantly, when he fell/jumped from the fifth-floor window of his hotel room, several days after a collapse brought on by high blood pressure and heart trouble; in Washington's Hotel Driscoll at the foot of Capitol Hill. Died. Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar. 63, last Premier of Spain (February-April 1931) under the Monarchy; of lung trouble, uremia and complications; in Madrid...