Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Class (a) of the legal tender notes, the "greenbacks," are the result of the financial legislation of the Civil War. For the last sixteen years their volume has been fixed, because, on being presented for redemption, they are reissued. Identical in legal qualities are the Treasury Notes, issued in pursuance...
The suggestion of a correspondent in yesterday's CRIMSON that the Post Office should be kept open till half-past nine o'clock in the evening instead of closing at eight as at present is an excellent one. It is strange that the needs of so large a postal district...
H. S. DENNISON.LACROSSE.- Lacrosse practice each day at 4.30. Defense: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Attack: Tuesday, Thursday and at times Saturday. Practice will be in cage as soon as lights are fixed. Until then in lower part of Gymnasium. New men asked to come out.
II. The present powers of the Speaker, as fixed by rule, are excessive.- (a) He practically makes the rules: Practical Essays. 15-17; 19th Century, XXVIII. 870.- (1) Appoints committee on rules.- (2) Is himself chairman of the committee.- (b) He interprets and applies the rules without appeal: Cong. Rec...
The question has been one of diplomatic importance for some years and was the subject of earnest consideration by the administration in 1888 when letters passed between Secretary of State Bayard and Minister Phelps on the matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed...