Word: congress
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...President Hoover proclaimed the national origins quotas of immigration ordered by Congress and operative after July 1. Attorney-General Mitchell had advised him that the proclamation was mandatory. Based upon a "scientific" estimate of foreign contributions to U.S. native stock in the past 140 years, national origins is viewed with alarm by President Hoover, who believes its basic statistics unsound. But said Mr. Hoover: "I naturally dislike the duty. . . . But the President of the United States must be the first to obey the law." An effort will be made to repeal national origins in the special session of Congress...
...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without...
...find anything in the article that suggests that an amendment, once proposed, is to be open to ratification for all time. ... Of the power of Congress, keeping within reasonable limits, to fix a definite period for the ratification we entertain no doubt...
...Congress and the President", Professor Holcombe, New Lecture Hall...
Theodore Roosevelt began Conservation in 1907 by withdrawing 16,000,000 acres of forest land from commercial exploitation. William Howard Taft in 1909 withdrew 7,000,000 acres of oil-bearing land. In 1920 Congress passed an oil-leasing act which upset the Roosevelt-Taft policy by permitting the Secretary of the Interior to allow oil prospecting, to grant oil leases. This act spawned the oil corruption of the Harding administration. Now, in the acreage it affects, the Hoover order far outdoes Roosevelt and Taft orders combined...