Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nepotism, Nerves. The House next declined to suspend Saturday half-holidays for Government workers (savings lost: $9,000,000), to abolish the Army & Navy transport service (savings lost: $2,000,000), to withdraw Federal aid from State vocational training schools (savings lost: $8,500,000). When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...
...stabilizing the dollar. Democratic leaders made the bill a party measure. ¶Completed drafting an omnibus economy bill to save $263,277.000 by: 1) cutting all Federal wages over $1.000 by 11%; 2) consolidating the Army & Navy into one department; 3) reducing the compensation paid hospitalized veterans; 4) abolishing the Army & Navy transport service. The President would be empowered to consolidate but not abolish overlapping executive boards & bureaus...
...sooner had Patrick Macdermott sat down than the bill passed first reading. It was to have its second reading this week. Lawyers were quick to note that President de Valera's bill, though it would abolish the oath, would leave untouched in the Free State Constitution the following clause of Article...
...amusing," sneered Pertinax, pungent Paris publicist, "that America, thinking of its naval aircraft carriers, took care not to insert bombing planes in the list of offensive arms to abolish...
...climbed 3/4? and the fourth day 1/4? more on tales of dust storms in Kansas, delayed spring wheat planting in the Northwest. The fifth day the market went to smash, dropping to 56 1/2? per bu. Traders were jumpy at reports that the House of Representatives was about to abolish the Farm Board, thus throwing its 125,000,000-bu. holdings suddenly on the market. The stock market had been declining heavily all week. Bears dumped selling orders into the Chicago pit. After closing time in Chicago, double news arrived from Washington: 1) The House had voted...