Word: thwarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress last week decided to thwart the increasing tendency of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines to go crazy. The Senate passed a House bill forbidding the three services to keep an officer or enlisted man on duty in the tropics and certain foreign stations longer than two years. Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson of the Army pleaded before a Senate committee for the two year restriction. About 500 men are being discharged from the Army each year because of mental derangements. Most common cause is dementia praecox. The large majority of cases arise in the Army's overseas...
President Roosevelt took his pen in hand, noted that he was "constrained by the record submitted" to veto the bill for Private McHam's honorable discharge. Thus for the first time since he took office a year ago did the President exercise his constitutional power to thwart the will of Congress...
Thus the growing disaffection among small capitalists at the President's summary treatment of the whole mechanism of private investment is entirely justified on the basis that, all other things being equal, the treatment is making a fair bid to thwart what feeble forces towards recovery are already under...
...Tillie's brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race in the Keystone in the course of which LeRoy falls overboard in a washtub and Fields stokes the boilers with boxes of roman candles. Part parody of Tugboat Annie, part pure farce, Tillie...
...Pennsylvania coal strike sharply raised the issue of Labor's moral obligation as a "partner" with Government and Industry in the recovery program. Last summer soft coal miners first struck when operators tried to thwart their unionization under NRA. To the coal fields President Roosevelt dispatched as his personal representative Deputy NRAdministrator McGrady who won a strike truce by promising the miners a "square deal'' from the White House. Out of that strike was born the National Labor Board under New York's Senator Wagner. Last month the Pennsylvania miners broke the truce to force...