Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one bill, providing for a legislative council to map the work of the next session. At the moment he is specifically advocating more civil service, "perfecting" the National Labor Relations Board, "birth control" of bills in Congress, giving ex-Presidents seats in the Senate. He also wants to abolish the job he is running for by reapportioning the State's Congressional districts...
...Killer Chebatoris took the plunge that broke his neck. Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...
Many of the men who attended the peace meeting and then voted in favor of the Nyc-Kvale bill to abolish compulsory R.O.T.C. are probably in favor of a voluntary R.O.T.C. Such a unit is Harvard's, and it is to be hoped that it will always remain...
...YORK--Prof. James T. Shotwell, President of the League of Nations Association, in an exclusive interview with the United Press tonight admitted defeat of the League's 20-year effort to abolish war by collective action of nations. He forecast that the appeals of Ethiopia, China and Spain to the League Council now in session would come to naught...
...currently organized, disbursement of Federal funds and auditing of Federal accounts are both duties of the Comptroller General. The Senate Reorganization Bill would abolish his office entirely. Supervising expenditures would become the job of the Bureau of the Budget, whose director would be responsible directly to the President instead of to the Secretary of the Treasury as he is at present. Auditing Federal expense accounts would become the job of an entirely new official: an Auditor General, to be appointed by a new Joint Congressional Committee on Public Accounts. Object of this change is to make spending and auditing functions...