Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate remained deaf to the President. Last week, finally, it passed (68 to 12) the cruiser-building bill with the three-year time-limit. The House shouted its approval. The bill went to the White House, whence it was brusquely despatched to the Navy Department to be thoroughly, but perfunctorily, combed for possible further objections...
...close of the Senate's debate brought strange sights. It brought an arch-Democrat, Mississippi's tart Harrison, to President Coolidge's side as leader of the fight against the time-limit. It brought the Republican Old Guard into open opposition to their outgoing party leader of the past five years. It brought Nebraska's acid, aloof Norris out in renewed denunciation, of the Old Guardsmen. Half in earnest, half in joke, he berated them for their "hard and ungrateful" attitude toward President Coolidge...
...stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift to Yale, this educational experiment is one that will be watched with great interest...
...Senior Executive Committee announced last night that the time limit for ticket applications for the First Annual Military Dance, to be given March 8th at the Hotel Copley Plaza, has been extended to Wednesday, February 20th...
...further resolution by the Conference placed a limit of $85,000,000 per annum on the budget of the Chinese War Office. Most significantly of all, the Provincial Governors agreed to combine their private armies into a truly national army, commanded solely from Nanking...