Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Virginia's handsome Representative Clifton Woodrum called "the best job Congress has done this session" was performed last week in the House more through anger than kindness. All set for execution was a log-rolling act wherein the proponents of $150,000,000 more for WPA would vote...
Set up under the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 was the office of the Comptroller General, with twofold duty of okaying Government expenditures before they are made and auditing them afterwards.* First recipient of this 15-year appointment was crusty Republican John R. McCarl, whose term did not end until...
Avowed purpose of the Act is to see that workers who wish to bargain collectively with their employer may do so through a union of their own choosing. To accomplish this, the Act: 1) forbids employers to interfere in any way with the workers' choice, even if the interference...
Last week Poland got what Czechoslovakia had pleaded for in vain. Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania...
Two months ago a petty issue-appointment of a doctor named Adrian Martens to the Flemish Academy of Medicine-cut through Belgian politics like a hot knife through lard. Patriotic War Veterans objected to Dr. Martens' appointment on the grounds that he was 1) a mediocre medical man, 2...