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...that the kind of truce we intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead of giving the President blanket authority to trim and weed and consolidate which he requested fortnight ago, the House, by a vote of 215-to-22. created a seven-man committee of its own to survey the executive field and report by April 15 where and how reorganizations could save $100,000,000. Some Republicans...
...delighted," remarked President Hoover when he heard that the House had at last tackled re-organization of the Federal machine. But he still believed, he added, that his method of blanket executive authority was better. President Hoover, personally inclined to keep the spirit of the truce and to claim no political credit for his relief measures, has shown more co-operation with the Democratic majority of the House than have the members of his Cabinet. Last week Democrats were able to point accusing fingers at Secretary of War Hurley,- Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur...
...bill that went to the Senate was sponsored by Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee and persistent advocate of a full-sized Navy. In 200 words it gave blanket authority for whatever naval construction was necessary to bring the fleet to its maximum strength. It appropriated no money; it detailed no building program; it set no time limits. If enacted, however, it would permit an expenditure of close to $1,000,000,000 to complete all vessels now building, modernize all capital ships, equip all carriers with aircraft, replace all overage craft...
This is communism, but with a small c. The Government issued a blanket decree that no leader of the Indian National Congress party should leave his native village...
...church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop did not believe him. Three days later the Virgin appeared again to Juan, told him to ascend the hill, where only cactus grew. There he found fragrant roses blooming, plucked them, took them in his tilma (rough blanket) to the bishop. When the tilma was unfolded, imprinted on it was a miraculous image of the Virgin. A chapel was speedily built on the hill; the image became an object of veneration, was named Guadalupe after the famed Spanish shrine. In the 17th Century the validity of the apparition...