Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill appropriating $987,000,000 for independent executive offices, after refusing (152-to-23) to abolish the Farm Board. For veterans of all wars the bill carried a total...
Complete uniformity of activity in various Houses is certainly not desirable; it would interests with the development of the autonomy and the individually of the units. Any House is in fact at liberty to abolish its committees, but so long as all the Houses have committees under the guise of student representation, all of them should be alert and efficient. There are great possibilities for leadership and initiative by Houses Committees; the least that can be expected in that they should be competent in the performances of routine duties...
Friends close to the President said that his note to Britain, although "conciliatory.'' will serve definite notice that he means to ask the Free State Parliament to abolish Oaths and Annuities when it meets April 20th. Privately. Irish lawyers who had advised Mr. de Valera, advised the Press that Canadian Premier Bennett had misinterpreted, in their opinion, the Empire definition of "dominion status." The Free State, after dropping the Oath, would still have its Governor General, they argued. The King would still appoint the G. G. and the Free State would still be "associated as a member of the British...
...Received from Utah's King a bill to abolish the Shipping Board...
...Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand-outs to abolish poverty. He is sincere, earnest, hard-hitting, but even his legislative foes do not call him unfair. His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...