Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives are members of the bar. For eleven years Senator Borah has been worried by the fact that as lawyers, drawing fees from clients, Congressmen are liable to be prejudiced in enacting new legislation. As the result of long pondering he drafted a bill whereby: 1) no Congressman could accept any fee for representing any client, not only before any department of the Government (already illegal), but also in any court case in which the Government is interested; 2) any Congressman acting as attorney or counsel for any person or corporation engaged in interstate commerce could be punished...
...passed by the House the Dies bill authorized the Government to accept silver from foreign nations above the world market price in payment for U. S. agricultural surpluses. When the Senate Agriculture Committee got through with the bill, surpluses became a secondary consideration. As amended, the bill directed the Government to buy all the silver in the U. S. and 50,000,000 oz. every month until the 1926 general price level was reached. Such a measure would wreck the President's monetary plans. Furthermore it would bring about a first-rate quarrel between him and his outgoing Congress...
...hour and twenty minutes the President talked. ("We discussed silver," said Senator Harrison, "from the time of the finding of the first nugget.") He tried to induce them to modify their proposal, told them that he could not accept it as it stood...
Cuba got the biggest setback but with no vote in Congress she had to be content with what was given her. The Philippines, about to be given their freedom, were in more or less the same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill...
March 13. Germany denies the military nature of her Storm Troops, but says that she is willing to accept international military supervision, providing all nations do likewise...