Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate calendar. Conservative Senator Reed of Pennsylvania promptly suggested it be passed over. Senator Borah resolutely moved that in spite of the objection the bill be considered and he demanded a roll call. The clerks called the 96 names, and after the vote some half-dozen Senators rose to alter their ballots or transfer their pairs, leaving the result in doubt...
Because revolutions, cataclysms, famines or epidemics may alter present tendencies, Professor Richet refused to look farther than 1944. But if present rates continue, Tokyo with 10,536,000 residents 20 years hence will have nosed past New York...
...walkout of the National Students League planned for that time will go on as arranged without the interference of the authorities according to Dean Hanford. "I see no reason why the University should in any way alter the regular curriculum because of the strike," was the official dictum...
...patriots in and out of Utah complained about Bishop Jones's lack of enthusiasm for the War. He doggedly refused to "see how a mere declaration by Congress could alter the principles involved." The Episcopal House of Bishops appointed a Commission to look into Bishop Jones's beliefs, his patriotism, his affiliations with "questionable" Socialist and pacifist organizations. Declaring that War is "not an un-Christian thing," the Commission asked Bishop Jones's resignation, got it. The House of Bishops cautiously declined to accept the Commission's report but did accept the resignation on the basis...
There was a single chance to alter the bill-by voting to send it back to the Committee with instructions to write in one change. Republicans could think of no better change than to reduce first class postage rates from 3? to 2? at a cost of $75,000,000 a year to the Treasury. On this vote they were beaten 271-to-133. Thus for a full working week hamstrung Representatives argued the Committee's plans for rearranging nominal and surtax rates; for a 10% tax reduction on earned incomes up to $8,000; for a new system...