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Without prior notice to any of his Congress leaders, Mr. Roosevelt suddenly produced from his magical hat the long-awaited Great White Rabbit of 1939. It was a revolving, self-liquidating rabbit and Mr. Roosevelt put its life at a maximum seven years, its first-year size at $870,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Revolving Rabbit | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

> Empower U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeal to review NLRB's findings. (NLRB frankly doubts that many judges are competent to scent the innumerable subtleties of Labor warfare, is already worried because the U. S. Supreme Court has in effect given lower courts the power proposed by A. F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

It voted to "empower the Union Committee, with the advice and consent of the student Council representatives on Freshman affairs and the Secretary of the Union, to appoint members of the class to take charge of the various class activities."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN VOTE DOWN CLASS ELECTIONS IN REFERENDUM | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

The sport of Governors-appointing honorary colonels to their staffs for kudos (but no pay)-was carried to a peak of absurdity by Kentucky's Ruby Laffoon (1931-35), who appointed 11,352 colonels. Currently Wisconsin's new Julius ("The Just") Heil leads all contenders with 57 new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Colonel Business | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

The Senate had planned to set up an independent Fair Labor Standards Board. with quasi-judicial powers (like NLRB's) to halt the transit in interstate commerce of goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Floors & Ceilings | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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