Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States and, unlike power and railroads, cannot readily be fitted in under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. Before Congress could act -and act it must-it would have to find some legal means of declaring coal a public utility. A revision of the anti-trust law to allow soft coal mining to regulate itself is one possibility, as President Hoover in his message to Congress last December, pointed out. Another is legislation in the name of conservation whereby the Government would buy up unprofitable mines and hold their contents as a national reserve in much the same...
...statesmen avoided any talk of a political alliance, any mention of the repressed German-speaking minorities in the South Tyrol. Finally came news. Chancellor Brüning and Premier Mussolini made a trade agreement. Germany agreed to lift certain of her emergency restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency to allow Italy to market her surplus crop of oranges and lemons in Germany. Italy agreed to purchase from Germany the same amount of coal she had been receiving as part of her share of reparations. Il Duce arranged liberal German credits. There was much talk about the forthcoming disarmament conference, about...
...soldiers had laid down their arms and passed from the picture before the actual surrender occurred. . . . General Cornwallis, being indisposed, asked his subordinate General Charles O'Hara to present the sword, denoting defeat. General Washington designated General Benjamin Lincoln to accept it. I believe Washington did not even allow his men to cheer...
...insult to every loyal American to allow Criminal Fall's portrait to remain in the Department of the Interior, therefore I would appreciate information from a legal mind suggesting a legal remedy in this matter...
...cost $22,000,000, and on which but $2.500,000 has been paid. Last year U. S. Lines lost $728,000; this year they will lose more. The gist of Mr. Chapman's S. O. S. was that the Government should take back all or part of the fleet, allow United States Lines to operate them for the Government's account; or after payment of a lump...