Word: averted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover last week discussed Federal finances with the Press. Important figures: a $4,435,029,732 expenditure for the current fiscal year ending June 30; a $4,119,230.649 expenditure for the next fiscal year; $315,799,083 saving to avert a tax increase. The President explained that this year's heavy expenditures were due to emergency outlays for Drought, veterans, Unemployment, Farm Relief. Meanwhile the 1931 deficit passed the $800,000,000 mark...
...working days the last session of the 71st Congress enacted the 13 appropriation bills essential to avert a special session...
...toward what was generally expected to be a presidential veto. Reported from the Ways & Means Committee H. R. 17054 to up veterans' loans on adjusted service certificates was snapped (363-to-37) through the House in 40 minutes. The Senate was primed for action no less quick to avert what all Bonus advocates dreaded-a pocket veto...
Most of the subcommittee's hearings so far have been a post-mortem of the stock crash and the part the Federal Reserve played?or failed to play?to avert catastrophe. From the financiers who passed before his committee Senator Glass, arch enemy of stock speculation, got little support for his bills to penalize speculators with a new tax and to restrict the Federal Reserve's loan policy...
Commissioner Anderson argued that his system would: eliminate the private profit from illicit liquor traffic, satisfy local public opinion, avert the state of nullification into which Prohibition is now drifting. The Government would enlist the power of economic law to beat the bootlegger. He argued that the U. S., in the Federal Reserve System and the Interstate Commerce Commission, has already applied to Money and Transportation the principle he now proposed for Liquor...