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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendments in the Reorganization Bill. Loudly demanded by the bill's opponents in the Senate last fortnight and the House last week was an amendment whereby Presidential changes in departments made under the new law could be nullified by a Congressional majority instead of by a two-thirds vote. The letter stated that the President would "in the overwhelming majority of cases go along with carefully considered Congressional action," but that the amendment was faulty on Constitutional grounds, since "a resolution cannot repeal Executive action taken in pursuance...
Same day Dr. Jacob Weinbach, secretary to Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, announced that all Catholic parishes in Austria will shortly receive a pastoral letter urging Catholics to vote "Ja." Jews have been excluded from voting...
...official wording on the nationwide plebiscite ballots was released last week: "Do you approve of the reunification of Austria with Germany as accomplished on March 13, and do you vote for the list of our Führer Adolf Hitler...
...apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test of the constitutionality of the registration requirement of the Public Utility Act of 1935. By a vote of 6-to-1 (sick Justice Cardozo and Freshman Justice Reed not participating; Justice McReynolds, as expected, dissenting) the Court upheld SEC in its test suit against Electric Bond & Share...
Last year His Eminence Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Primate of Belgium, ordered Belgian Catholics to vote against the Rexist (Fascist) Party of Lé Degrelle on (TIME, April 19). Recently Cardinal van Roey wrote his clergy explaining that such orders of the hierarchy, even entering as they do the political sphere, are binding upon the faithful from the moment they are issued. The controversy which followed Cardinal van Roey's letter became so heated that ...he submitted his views to the Pope. From Pius XI the Cardinal last week received assurance that his teachings are completely in line...