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Meanwhile in Washington, President-elect Roosevelt's political friends in the House disclosed sensational plans for making him a fiscal dictator over the Government. Speaker Garner stood sponsor for legislation which would authorize the new President not only to abolish and consolidate all executive departments but also to control the public purse by reducing or suspending appropriations fixed by law and by cutting Federal salaries at will-all to help balance the Budget. Declared the Speaker: "I'm ready to go the limit and the limit is the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fisherman & Wife | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN OFFICERS | 2/14/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS ELECTIONS | 2/7/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Work for All the World | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Crown de Valera! | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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