Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago the President remedied his first omission by asking Congress for $800,000,000 with which to build a bigger Navy. Last week, he remedied the second. To Speaker of the House William Bankhead, the President wrote...
...memorable incident took place on the floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative of U. S. womanhood, to cast her decision one way or the other. On the second roll call, Representative Rankin, with tears in her eyes, stood up to say: "I want to stand by my country...
Constitutionality. In holding the first AAA unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled that the Government was using the Federal taxing power unconstitutionally in employing it to impose a system of crop regulation lying outside the powers delegated to Congress. The constitutionality of the second AAA, which has the same general objectives, rests not on the taxing power but specifically on the powers of Congress to: 1) regulate interstate commerce, and 2) promote the general welfare. As a further safeguard against the Court, the drafters of the AAA of 1938 inserted a provision separating the Act into sections dealing with each crop...
Winthrop was well represented by Stuart and Robie, both of whom struggled in to the tape for a tight decision in the 40 yard dash, while Stuart reaped another first in the broad jump, and a second in the 600 yard run, passing all but one in the field in a spectacular last lap, Robie registered a win in the high hurdles...
...Paradise For Three," the second feature, is yet another tale of an old millionaire running away from his well-ordered household. Frank Morgan does an excellent job of running away but he and the audience find it pretty dull, enlivened now and again by the lines and antics of Robert Young and Edna May Oliver. The photography is surprisingly poor...