Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover were it not for two miscellaneous items added to their tariff baggage. One was the Debenture Plan which, forced out of the Farm Bill, Senator Norris and his followers were now determined to tack on the Tariff Bill. The other was the proposal of Virginia's Senator Glass to impose a $5 tax on every $100 share of stock purchased for speculation. The test for "speculation" was to be whether the stock was held for less than two months...
...Jones (Dry author of the Five & Ten law) to pass a resolution, as requested by the President for a joint commission to study Prohibition and recommend if necessary changes in administration and responsibility. The Senate at once began to debate the Hoover attitude on Prohibition. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, thoroughly Dry and now thoroughly aroused, led the attack. His sharp voice crackled, his small body trembled with indignation...
...Senator Glass said that the President, by his Commission and Investigation, had smothered the Prohibition issue. As a sponsor of the $250,000 appropriation for the expenses of the National Law Enforcement Commission, Senator Glass insisted that Prohibition was to have been the prime purpose of that inquiry. He cried...
...Senator Glass recalled that Prohibition had not been named by name in either the Hoover or the Wickersham speeches inaugurating the Commission's work, and added: "These omissions could not have been merely coincident. Obviously they must have been agreed...
...Senator Glass ridiculed the idea of passing the Jones Resolution for another joint Commission on Prohibition, declaring: "There is not a fact to be ascertained, not one, not now immediately available to the President and the department heads affected. It is an attempt by the executive . . . to shift to the Congress initial responsibility...