Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within three years some seven billion dollars worth of Liberty Loans at rates as high as 4½% will become callable. Secretary Mellon in his annual report hinted at a major long-term refinancing operation at lower interest rates when he asked Congress to amend the Liberty-Loan Act so as to authorize him to issue eight billions in new bonds...
...Passed a bill to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act by requiring canned foods below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled, again rejecting theTydings amendment to prohibit insertion of deadly poi- sons in industrial alcohol. ¶ Passed a bill to establish a division of (criminal) identification & information in the Department of Justice. ¶ Passed a bill to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. ¶ Adopted a joint resolution making July 5 (Saturday) a legal bank holiday in the District of Columbia for this year only. ¶ Passed a bill amending the Federal Farm Loan...
...Adopted a resolution to amend its own parliamentary rules, abolishing the Committee of the Whole and permitting Senators who have not voted on a bill to move its reconsideration...
...glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...
...science are you qualified to teach?" The arrangement leads to a ridiculous anomaly. The CRIMSON has suggested the remedy of "letting the field of concentration of undergraduates determine the kind of degree they are to receive." If this is not satisfactory, there are certainly other reforms that will amend the situation. J. H. Selvidge...