Word: congress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...echoes of protest rolled back to Hyde Park on the Hudson. No, said Senators Borah, Clark, Johnson, Wheeler, Minton, Schwellenbach, Pepper, Byrd, McNary, Taft, Nye; no, said the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. No, said Congressmen Bloom, Coffee of Washington, along with the Keep America out of War Congress, the National Maritime Union, and Columnists Krock, Denny, Flynn, Thompson, et al. No, said that old Border Statesman Cordell Hull of Pickett County, Tenn., Secretary of State through the 2,445 days of the first two administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...over & above Britain's war needs. Her infant air industry, though encouraged by a $10,000,000 "educational" order from the mother country last year, is by no means equipped to supply such a quantity. Last week the Empire Training Planners waited only the embargo-lifting vote by Congress to place $100,000,000 worth of orders in the U. S., for 600 light trainers, 900 fighters and bombers. Of this cost, Britain will pay half, Canada onequarter, Australia and New Zealand one-eighth each...
...Paris, the Bibliothèque Nationale (corresponds to the Library of Congress) limited admissions to 100 scholars at a time. Reason: capacity of the Bibliothèque's bombproof shelter...
...Professor Payson Wild states elsewhere in the Crimson, there are strong indications that Congress will smother the Panama plan. Congress and the people, unfortunately for Administration strategy, have taken the President's promises in good faith, and will demand enforcement of the law in letter and in spirit. To regain the confidence of the people, the Administration might well turn its attention to pushing in every way possible American trade interests in Latin America...
...wholesale transfers which began last week are not in accord with the intention of those who wrote and voted for the recent neutrality legislation, Wild believes, since Congress intended that no American ships should carry goods to belligerents, regardless of what flag they were flying...