Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States have now had such measures introduced and New York and New Jersey have special commissions studying the subject. The political science department of the University of Nebraska has had over 4,000 letters of inquiry on it. But the other 47 States are more than likely to wait until they see whether Nebraska's experiment justifies the unicameralists. Bicameralists claim that one house acts as a check to prevent the other from hasty action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative...
...major accomplishments of his career, including Nebraska's unicameral system which he believes caps it, George Norris had to wait until after he was 70. Not until 1932 when he had been nearly 20 years in the Senate did events begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers...
...Blom's voice came crisply through the ether asking Burbank for a radio bearing. The Burbank operator was puzzled to note that Pilot Blom was using a daytime radio frequency. He asked the plane's position. Pilot Blom replied: "Wait a minute." The operator waited. But he heard no voice through his earphones, no drone of motors in the sky. In a few minutes frantic United launched a search, but not until next morning did a flyer spot the tragedy from...
...China should consider an immediate anti-Japanese military expedition her only national task at present. Therefore we could not wait longer. We want to fight...
...ineffectually that A. P.'s members "are its customers, and there would be no point in collecting profits from them in order to return the profits as dividends." The Court's action left still unsettled by the highest court in the country, how long broadcasting stations must wait before they can legitimately appropriate "news'" published by newspapers...