Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...termination clause which was the last stumbling block in the path of conciliation, provides that the contract shall expire in six months, and will be automatically renewed unless one side gives notice of wanting to amend it at least 30 days before the contract expires...
...live in a country where all leaders can sit down . . . and carve up a turkey instead of carve up a map." Correspondents noted that his tongue and temper, raspy when he left Washington, were improved. When he took occasion to tell "his other State" (Georgia) that it really must amend its laws so as to permit it to borrow funds from PWA like the rest of the States, he did so without being sharp or sarcastic...
...Making. Principal business before the council was the Wagner Act. Having previously determined to amend it in some fashion, they debated just how far to go in rewriting a statute which has not worked out altogether to their benefit. Before the Supreme Court upheld the Act last year, said the council in its annual report, "the administration of the law by the National Labor Relations Board was, on the whole, just and proper. . . . Since the decisions ... the Board has abandoned whatever restraint it imposed upon itself . . . and has brazenly and by official acts declared itself a proponent...
WASHINGTON--Administration, leaders tonight gave the "quick action" signal to a program to amend and liberalize the Social Security Act early in the forthcoming session of Congress to combat the rapid growth of more sweeping old-age pension schemes. Chairman Robert Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his group will begin a thorough study of "liberalization" proposals as soon as Congress convenes and that such legislation would take precedence over the administration's tax program...
Should declared instead of undeclared war come to Europe, Washington opinion last week rated 50-50 the chance of President Roosevelt's calling a special session of Congress to repeal or amend the Neutrality Act, which expires anyway next May 1. If he should call Congress, he would probably be embarrassed by revival of the movement for a Constitutional Amendment to require that the nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded...