Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that he was a bitter-end proponent of the plan to lease Muscle Shoals for operation by private interests. . . . More visibly due for a veto was any revenue act providing a tax cut greater than $225,000,000. A direct message from the President to Congress urged favorable action on Secretary MelIon's plan for helping Austria to raise a $100,000,000 rehabilitation loan by subordinating liens taken by the U. S. for prior Austrian loans. . . . The President also urged Congress to vote $200,000 for submarine safety research, and to authorize the beginning of work...
From the estimated $252,000,000 surplus Secretary Mellon last autumn subtracted a $25,000,000 reserve fund, and told Congress that a $225,000,000 tax cut would be safe if Congress would keep closely to the Treasury's budget figures. Up to last week Congress had already gone $25,000,000 beyond the budget figures, and still had to make a flood-control outlay of perhaps $40,000,000. From these facts Treasury experts predicted that a tax cut surely no greater than $225,000,000, perhaps of only $220,000,000, perhaps of no more than...
...ever accomplished in Washington was effected last week by a tall, unique young man famed for his blond hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against...
When Col. Lindbergh garlanded the Caribbean with Good Will, he especially expected and especially received a felicitous reception in Puerto Rico, the brick-shaped, easternmost member of the Greater Antilles. There he landed among fellow countrymen. Puerto Ricans have been, by act of Congress in 1917 or by act of God (birth) since then, citizens...
...former Commissioners, notably David J. Lewis of Maryland, when their views and actions displeased. He also charged disregard of law and improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which permits 50% increases or decreases by the President independent of Congress. The Coolidge record is 18 increases and five decreases, the latter including lowered rates on bobwhite quail, mill-feed, paintbrush handles. President Coolidge has raised the tariff on such important commodities as wheat, butter, pig iron...