Word: alteration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said, not only outrage his artistic conscience by spoiling the effect of the balustrade, but it would also be a base betrayal of the sainted Cardinal...
Hearing that Democrats and insurgent Republicans were planning to alter this so-called flexible clause* so that Congress instead of the President should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus...
...tariff rates. In fact every one was a little uneasy. So with many whisperings behind the scenes it was agreed that the prolog should be not tariff, but administration of the tariff. In other words, the Senators will first argue about the flexible tariff provision (allowing the President to alter rates), meanwhile watching which ways the tariff cat jumps...
...Cabinet would continue sternest measures to restore peace in Palestine, and might even dismiss Acting High Commissioner Harry Charles Luke, whom Zionists regard as chiefly responsible for allowing the situation to get out of hand. Subsequent intimations by Lord Passfield that Mr. Luke would not be dismissed did not alter the fact that the Acting High Commissioner had been superseded in authority by the return to Jerusalem last week of High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor. That Sir John presently received instructions to take an unmistakably pro-Jewish line was strongly suggested by the tone of his next proclamation at Jerusalem...
...bill continues the President's power to alter rates by 50% but changes the basis from differences in cost of production to difference in conditions of competition wholly within the U. S. market. Prolonged economic research would no longer retard the Tariff Commission's findings under the new plan...