Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sustained the President's veto of the Surplus Control Act (farm relief) by 31 votes...
...House promptly voted a reduction of $289,000,000. The Senate waited to see the April income tax returns. When these were known, Mr. Mellon reduced his limit to $201,000,000. The Senate then voted a reduction of some $205,000,000. The Revenue Act of 1928 finally called for a cut of $222,495,000- a little less than the original Mellon limit. Changes were as follows: REDUCTIONS Reducing the 13½% tax on corporate incomes, to 12% $123,450,000* Increasing the $2,000 exemption on corporate incomes, to $3,000 12,000,000 Repeal...
Another name for Senate Bill 3555 was the Surplus Control Act and another, as everyone knows, was the McNary-Haugen Bill, and another, according to some advisers of the U. S. Farmer, was "Salvation." The name finally applied to it by President Coolidge, as to its predecessor of last year, was, in effect, "Monkey Busi-ness...
...Transportation Act of 1920 provided a Labor board to discuss disputes between operators and workmen, but its findings were not made mandatory. The Watson-Parker Bill of 1926 amended the Labor board's functions to include arbitration. The Board's name became "Mediation Board"; its findings were made "final and conclusive" if upheld by a United States District Court. Federal District Judge George A. Carpenter of Chicago dismissed an operators' petition against a finding of the Mediation Board last December. Last week's Circuit Court decision upheld Judge Carpenter and notified the workmen not only that they would...
...utilize their own peculiarities of response to subject matter." They must not learn by rote. In disparaging this latter method, which he finds still all too prevalent Dr. Dewey has said: "Much work in [an ordi-nary] school consists in setting up rules by which pupils are to act of such a sort that even after pupils have acted they are not led to see the connection between the result?say the answer?and the method pursued. So far as they are concerned, the whole thing is a trick and a kind of miracle...