Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flexible provision of the last tariff law (1921), the Commission is ordered to investigate cases where complaints are made, determine for specific articles the costs of production in the U. S. and in the chief competing producing country, then to recommend increases or decreases of the tariff not to exceed 50% of the present law- which changes the President then may put into effect by proclamation. So far, few recommendations have been made, and practically all of them called for increases of the tariff. This situation, of course, has provoked criticism from low-tariff advocates. Recently The Sun (Baltimore) suggested...
...Fosdick made minor conditions which were also accepted: his salary is not to exceed $5,000; he must continue his teaching at Union Theological Seminary; a larger church, seating 2,500, must be built in the neighborhood of Columbia University, several miles from the residential district in which the church is now located. And also, as a graceful gesture, Dr. Fosdick could not accept until the Presbyterian General Assembly officially refused to permit the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to take him back into its pulpit. It was thought that the church members would follow their leaders in accepting the Fosdick...
Annoyed by reports that he had become a millionaire through his connection with the real-estate development of Florida, William J. Bryan announced that his Florida profits would not exceed...
...issue and the Government is to redeem annually $6,250,000 of the converted loan at par. Those subscribers who are practically destitute are to receive a "social rental" (apparently a small annual repayment of principal in addition to interest) of 2% of their holdings, in no case to exceed a total of $150 per annum, the annual sum of $10,000,000 to be earmarked for this purpose. All others holders?this part of the law being designed to avoid rewarding speculators who, since 1920, were active in buying the bonds at a fraction of their original value?...
...athletics. Proper provision for extension will be made where this may be necessary. The plant will accommodate 1000 students. It is not expected that the buildings will be ready for occupancy before the fall of 1926. It is the hope of the Faculty that this School will not exceed 1000 students for an indefinite period in the future...