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United States, a citizenship case decided in the Supreme Court, overturns the decision in United States v. Schwimmer (1929). April 23 The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (later the Continental Basketball Association (CBA)) is founded. Howard Hughes's Western movie The Outlaw (1943), starring Jane Russell, goes on general release.
The need to modernize the national legislature became evident during the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. During those years of economic crisis and global war, the federal government took on vast new responsibilities—responsibilities that stretched to the breaking point of the capacity of the national legislature, as it was then structured, to cope with a vastly increased ...
The 1946 United States elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress.In the first election after World War II, incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Pub. L. 79–404, 60 Stat. 237, enacted June 11, 1946, is the United States federal statute that governs the way in which administrative agencies of the federal government of the United States may propose and establish regulations, and it grants U.S. federal courts oversight over all agency actions. [2]
November 1946 was 19 months after President Harry S. Truman assumed office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. While Democrats had controlled the House for 16 years since 1931 and Roosevelt had been elected to a record four terms in office, Truman did not garner the same support as the deceased president.
The Employment Act of 1946 ch. 33, section 2, 60 Stat. 23, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1021, is a United States federal law. Its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability of inflation and unemployment onto the federal government. [1] The Act stated: it was the "continuing policy and responsibility" of the federal government to:
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1946, in 34 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 5, 1946. Elections took place on September 9 in Maine . In Idaho , the governor was elected to a 4-year term for the first time, instead of a 2-year term.
The 1946 United States Senate elections were held November 5, 1946, in the middle of Democratic President Harry S. Truman's first term after Roosevelt's passing. The 32 seats of Class 1 were contested in regular elections, and four special elections were held to fill vacancies.