Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead on its hands and the Board lapsed into a troubled silence. Meanwhile came two develop ments which boded ill for the Board's existence after the opening of Congress. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed drafted a bill, supposedly with some form of Ad ministration backing, to abolish the Board altogether. The potent American Farm Bureau Federation announced that, in its opinion, the Farm Board after two years had failed to control surplus production; that therefore the Farm Bureau would resume its fight for the equalization...
...against nature. " 'To every one that hath shall be given and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath,' is the formulation of a natural law. We can do something to limit the operation of this law . . . but we can no more abolish the law itself than we can abolish the law of gravitation...
First act of Tsar Calles was to abolish the gold standard for Mexico, make the silver peso the only legal tender. Managing Director Alberto Mascarenas of the Bank of Mexico followed with the announcement that the entire issue of Mexico's gold notes would be withdrawn from circulation and burned...
...demanded last week roughly equals half the cost of the Royal Navy for a year. The House of Commons promptly voted the borrowing of this huge sum 283 to 236. That no British party dares to risk loss of votes by abolishing the Dole appears from the fact that when last in power the Conservatives (now its chief opponents) not only did not abolish the Dole but did not even curtail it though they had complete control of the House of Commons...
...continuation to effective completion of the services of Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, his leave be extended to and including Dec. 31, 1932." Dr. Robert Eckles Swain will continue as acting president; Dr. Wilbur will continue to draw no salary. Opponents of the plan to abolish Stanford's lower division (TIME, June 8) took comfort in reflecting that while Dr. Wilbur is absent the plan will not be consummated...