Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles...
...house now being built for Dean Donham of the Business School marks another addition to the faculty houses owned by the University. Several homes, notably those of Professor Hocking and Palmer adjoining the Yard have long been controlled by the College, but so far the policy has been to limit the ownership of single housing units to a minimum...
...give the affair a final news fillip, Joseph Edward Sheedy, executive vice president of the Chapman company, announced that the Leviathan and later the ten other U. S. Lines vessels purchased from the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 18), would sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships...
...Institute, in effect, that what was apparently illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law could be made legal through the little-used state-compact clause of the U. S. Constitution. What smart Secretary Wilbur proposed to the A. P. I. was: Disintegration of its hard-won national agreement to limit oil production to the 1928 figures, into state agreements; legalization of these agreements by each state; consolidation of these state authorizations into compacts or treaties between the States; final integration of the whole plan, beyond the reach of the anti-trust law, by the ratification in congress of the state...
...think that only one American has played on the Rugger team and the few men who have rowed have not been Rhodes Scholars. It must be admitted that in Track the Scholars (Colonial as well as American) take a larger share and last year a motion was introduced to limit this. It might also be added that in intramural sports the aliens often occupy a good deal of space. Nevertheless, there is so much talk about the invasion of Oxford by Americans and this is so frequently blamed on the Rhodes Trust, that I hope that you will pardon...