Word: acte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Secretary of State Hull, and emerged saying, "My discussion on conditions was optimistic-providing we get some help from you." Washington's mood about aid to Britain probably kept Lord Lothian from being too hopeful. The President had decided to postpone any attempt to repeal the Johnson Act to permit British credits until the next Congress meets in January. There were stories that President Roosevelt was becoming disposed to go slow on aid to Britain, possibly fearful that Britain might soon be past...
...Walter Bill. "I still am not sure," said Mr. Barkley, "what its passage will do to all the agencies of the Government. . . . The more one discusses it, the less he understands it." Brighter Senators than Alben Barkley agreed, wearily passed (27-to-25) a measure which could subject any act, rule, decision of such agencies as NLRB, SEC, FCC, TVA and many others to court review...
...Under the Neutrality Act, implements of war cannot be donated directly to a belligerent...
President Roosevelt had the power (by Act of Congress) to enforce Henry Stimson's dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...
...Adding the "continue or revive" votes to the "good ideas badly handled" votes, FORTUNE found a majority who approved in principle of at least six New Deal measures: the anti-trust drive (72.5%), Housing and Home Loan Acts (70.9%), Wages and Hours Act (68.9%), the Hull trade treaties (67.2%), PWA (55.8%) and the Wagner Act (51.2%). Yet 94.1% agreed that such measures were preventing recovery. Some reforms which the Forum had approved in principle were also high on its list of deterrents: Wagner Act (74.5%), taxation policies (66.8%), Wages and Hours Act (48.5%), anti-trust drive (40%). Outstanding for unpopularity...