Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students from nearby universities were personally conducted by their professors. The General Electric Co. showed an automatic welding apparatus and an electric steam generator. The Anaconda Copper Co. demonstrated methods of roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers, displayed a photomicrographic camera, to be attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk and a caterpillar drive adjustable at any time, for getting automobile trucks out of ditches. The Universal Oil Products Co. demonstrated its process...
Accordingly, Senator Capper decided to amend his bill by striking out the passage which is " unnecessarily offending to the Negro population." Many states have laws against miscegenation, and the Senator regards the provision as an unnecessary troublemaker. The withdrawal of this section by the Senator is made easier because he himself did not write the bill. It was drawn by the attorney of the American Federation of Women's Clubs...
...tariff are producing much greater revenue than was expected. Now Senator Smoot says: "No!" Consider the Senator's probable reasons: He considers the bonus likely to pass. This will call for much additional revenue. If any tax tinkering is undertaken, the LaFollette group will use every means to amend the bill by adding excess profits taxes, and larger income surtaxes. This result Senator Smoot and the regular Republicans are anxious to avoid. To meet the bonus, if it comes, regular Republicans will want every cent that is now being raised-they will want more, in fact, and even talk...
...Congress may amend the Volstead Law to prohibit liquor on American vessels, but the Court's decision declared that it had neglected to do so by the terms of the present...
...Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to send their children through high school and stop. The average college graduate, said the learned Bishop," knows a lot about books but don't know scarcely anything about how to do a thing in a practical way." Bishop Nibley would amend Mr. Vanderlip's statement to read "western high school graduate...