Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, the C. I. 0. (which embraces fewer unions in occupations assisted by WPA) rushed to the support of A. F. of L. with a blast warning Congress to amend the new law. The Workers Alliance, whose membership is largely dependent on WPA, jumped for joy on the sidelines, being for once the prospective beneficiaries, though not the authors, of a revolt in WPA. Violence grew. In Minneapolis a policeman was killed in a row between pickets and nonstriking WPAsters. As skilled unionists walked out, WPA projects came to a halt and unskilled workers were idle willy-nilly...
...Administration wants to amend the embargo provision out of the bill-possibly by a cash & carry clause (not to be confused with the last law's cash & carry provision which applied to "nonlethal weapons"-cotton, oil, steel, etc.; this would apply to actual arms). If this should happen Britain and France would be able to count in the event of war on the armament and powder factories of the U. S. as long as they had money with which to buy. They would have enough money for a time. Together, the British and French have about...
...junior securities and cutting down capitalization, it provides for voluntary adjustment of fixed charges between the road and its bondholders and for postponement of interest payments. Nonetheless, Chairman Wheeler, who could stop the Chandler Bill if he wishes, is letting it by with but one change-he intends to amend its technicalities so that in practice only the little Lehigh Valley and Dan Willard's B. & O. will be able to take advantage...
Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. WPA's head man, well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich...
...lull in foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico was a "teaser...