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Word: proclaimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimized into a quarrel over terms-in this case a grammarian's choice: the word "may" or the word "shall." Vandenberg helped draft the arms embargo clause for the Neutrality Act; in it he insisted that when a state of war was found to exist, the President "shall proclaim" an embargo on sales of arms to belligerents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...State Department wanted the law discretionary; Secretary Hull sought to have the law read: "The President may proclaim." Without enthusiasm, Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill that came to his ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 1, 1937 - and the word was "shall." Last week the President spoke from the House rostrum his grave regret for that signature of approval - the first time since he became Chief Executive he has thus publicly admitted a major mistake. This conciliatory note was typical of the surface serenity of last week's Washington scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Canada also scrambled aboard last week, requested King George VI to proclaim that "a state of war exists between Canada and Germany"-which he promptly did. For the time being, Canada will participate in three ways: ship munitions to England, feed airmen into the Royal Air Force, defend herself. The last of these she was pitifully unprepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: All In | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Brazil was the first Government to proclaim neutrality. Manganese, coffee and rubber in demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Death for Sale | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Congress, as well as the President, might perceive and proclaim a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half a Halter | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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