Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal a permanent part of American government. It must tackle this ticklish job of amending the Constitution, so that Congress will have the power to wipe out the more glaring abuses in American industry by establishing minimum wages and maximum hours to be observed throughout the country. Such a step will inevitably be distasteful to a people who like to regard their constitution as able to cope with any situation, but it must be done in the interests of the mass of the citizens whose welfare has too long been overlooked...
...only applicants smart enough to step forward with a plan embracing every project to be undertaken in their state, the La Follettes got $100,000,000 for Wisconsin. Strings: the State must raise another $105,000,000 needed for its 140-odd projects, must arrange to repay $30,000,000 of the Federal Government's advance...
Politics. "This is the next step in the logical unfolding of man's eternal quest for freedom," proclaimed Senator Wagner when he produced his bill in the Senate last week. To some Senators it undoubtedly seemed so. Others had their minds more on the quest for reelection. Having bid for a share of the 3,500,000 veterans vote by voting for the Bonus, they wanted a share of the 3,500,000 A. F. of L. vote. Few Senators cared to fight the bill. Daniel Hastings of Delaware criticized it for what it did to labor minorities. Senator...
...inference was plain that all this was the work of His Majesty's National Government which has taken the pound off gold and raised British tariffs. "I see no reason," said he, "to abandon Government's policies of moderate tariffs and cheap money." The next step in Britain's ascent out of Depression, he said, was a resumption of international lending, and even there a beginning had been made. So expansive was the Chancellor's speech that one correspondent ascribed it to a fine dinner he had just finished at the Hall of the Grocers...
...very word 'step' is extremely distasteful. . . . The truth is that no step has been taken up to now. And, owing to Italo-Franco-British relations, it is most probable that there will not be any, even in the future...