Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter reprinted immediately below constitutes, in its main thesis, a peculiarly trenchant substantiation of the arguments of those who would abolish all save Senior Class officers. The conditions described by the writer are scarcely confined to the Freshman Class. They are characteristic of Sophomore and Junior elections as well; and for a complete demonstration one need only add figures to prove that it is a rare balloting which draws votes from more than half the electorate...
...this year for the postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused to avail itself of the opportunity...
...popping with large constitutional questions. Its first line of defense before the Supreme Court would be the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce; its second, the "general welfare" clause in the Constitution's preamble. Fourteen years ago the Supreme Court voided as unconstitutional a legislative attempt to abolish child labor by prohibitive taxes upon such manufactures in interstate commerce...
...conferred. Reporters bunched respectfully a few paces from the locked door. At 12:45 a. m. it opened, the President announced dissolution, cried in ringing tones: "I have no doubt that my Government possesses the confidence of the country! We shall win the election and our victory will automatically abolish the Oath of Allegiance" (sworn by Free State Deputies & Senators to King George...
Reorganization, The next manifestation of Albany control over Washington occurred when South Carolina's Senator Byrnes announced that, at Governor Roosevelt's specific request, blanket authority would be given the next President to reorganize and abolish multifarious executive agencies to save money, balance the Budget. Not since War days had it been proposed to give the White House such extraordinary power. How he would use it Mr. Roosevelt would decide after he had mastered the detailed set-up of the Federal Government later this month at Warm Springs. Already his agents were reported scurrying through the executive departments...