Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Planted in the Senate was Bob Reynolds, chief of the Vindicators, who avowed: "I'll be sittin' there every minute watchin' things, and ready to amend bills to deal with aliens whenever possible...
...each other lies, go to the ball game. On the seventh day of debate the House anesthetized it by sending it back to a committee pigeonhole. Republicans were content: now they can campaign this year in the country on the basis that the nasty old Democrats have refused to amend the inequities in the law. New Dealers were content: they admit only infinitesimal flaws in the law, think it needs mostly more enforcement. Only Messrs. Cox, Barden & Co. were infuriated-gone was their last chance this session to heave monkey wrenches into the law's workings...
...show. Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, of Bonham, Tex., utterly lost control of his cageful of snarling Democrats, and Minority Leader Joe Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., quietly turned loose his herd of trumpeting Republicans. Trampled in the confusion were the hopes of the Wild Men of the South to amend the Wage & Hour Act so drastically as to make it almost inoperative...
...Deal laws. Investment Bankers Association's Emmett F. Connely, after a hot blast against TNEC, suggested "innumerable instances where the administration of the laws as they now stand could be simplified to everyone's benefit without changing the law itself." Henning Prentis said: "Let government amend those laws that are obviously unfair to the businessman in certain particulars, such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Wage and Hour Act, and the two Securities acts." Yale & Towne's President W. Gibson Carey Jr., retiring Chamber president, declared: "Our governmental institutions, though somewhat perverted, are still intact...
WASHINGTON--House foes of the controverted wage-hour law won three important parliamentary victories today in their fight to amend the statute, shortly after President Roosevelt had urged that it be left unchanged for another year...