Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposes, was .rushed to the White House for President Hoover's signature. After six turbulent months Congress had completed its major task of the session. If followed by a real economy bill and no emergency bills without their own revenue features, the tax bill made the Budget approximately safe for another year...
...relieve the President of hasty trips to the Capitol to sign bills the last day of an expiring Congress. For a century Presidents have been confused as to their Constitutional time-limit under such circumstances. To play safe they went to the President's room outside the Senate chamber and there raced through last-minute measures passed before noon on March 4. President Hoover signed a minor claim bill on March 5, 1931. The Supreme Court held this perfectly legal, ruling that a President has ten days in which to act on legislation after a Congress ceases to exist, just...
...mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate of predominantly Radical-Socialist tabbies...
Burglars entered the Paris home of James Hazen Hyde, onetime vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, overlooked a safe and an art collection, ate some asparagus...
...insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...