Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary's power to control and monopolize food distribution sprang from his authority to make agreements with producers, processors and marketers in interstate commerce. He could summon packers, order them to pay not less than 7? per Ib. for hogs. If the packers consented to combine to up the market price, the processing tax might be waived...
Before Count Charles could summon all the Deputies who usually support him, the Chamber passed a snap vote of no confidence 82 to 72. Necessarily Count Charles announced the resignation of his Cabinet, started for the Royal Palace...
...year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next to the land. As umpire aboard his flagship Pennsylvania he will follow the make-believe combat by radio, deciding which ship sinks which. When the engagement is broken off, he will summon all staff officers and ship commanders aboard the Pennsylvania for a critical discussion of Problem No. 14. He will announce no winner, no loser...
...meeting disbanded at 12:35. Off went Professor Moley of the Roosevelt "brain trust" to assemble preliminary data in the State and Treasury Departments for his chief. Secretary Stimson vanished to summon Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, tell him what had happened. On the train taking him South, the President-elect reflected with satisfaction on the Red Room conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which...
Returning a few minutes later, Mrs. Coolidge went upstairs to summon him for luncheon. In his dressing room she found him lying on the floor on his back in his shirtsleeves. To him Death had come 15 minutes before, swiftly, easily, without pain. For "cause" the official death certificate said: "coronary thrombosis...