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Flexibility. Jealous of the President's power to flex tariff rates 50%, the Senate amended the bill to nut flexibility entirely in the hands of Congress. Aware of President Hoover's liking for this flexing power Chairman Hawley rounded up a substantial House majority to exclude the Senate provision from the bill...
...transfer the power to flex tariff rates 50% from the President to the Congress...
...Senate voted to take from the President his present power to flex tariff rates 50% up or down...
Tariff things so far done by the Senate: inclusion of the Export Debenture Plan; exclusion of the President's power to flex rates 50% up or down; increases in agricultural rates; decreases in industrial rates. Tariff things undone: rate changes on sugar, dyes, paper, textiles et al; revision of the free list...
...foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift yet languid twitch of both eye brows together...