Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of dealing with debtors. Where President Hoover wanted to shift the question to another commission, the President-elect held with Congress that ''the most convenient and effective contacts can be made through the existing agencies and constituted channels of diplomatic intercourse. ... No action by Congress has limited or can limit the Constitutional power of the President to carry on diplomatic contacts and conversation." U. S. Constitutionalists hailed this Roosevelt stand as an important reversion to the historic U. S. method of dealing with foreign governments...
...athlete. My exercise is obtained from walking. About two o'clock every afternoon I leave my office at the Capitol and walk briskly for a mile or more. As a result of careful watch over my diet and moderate exercise I keep myself inside the 168-pound limit...
...latest demand of the Legion that the Government spend $2,466,060,000 on World War veterans and their families within the next ten years has gone the limit. It gives ample evidence of the organization's determination, to use a glamorous name for the purposes of obtaining cold cash, and of its complete disregard of where the money is to come from. "It is not our problem to say how the money is raised," but we must have it, is the bald manner in which they will approach the convening Congress...
There is no chance that RCA will ever pass into foreign hands. Should that threaten the board can limit the voting power of all foreign-owned stock to 20%. This provision is in keeping with the reasoning which prompted President Wilson, assisted by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to call on U. S. companies to form Radio Corp. in 1919 to keep ownership of the Alexanderson Alternator and other important radio patents within...
...Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed no limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill and tremendous vitality, however, the critics found no more in Poldi Mildner than they would have looked for in a 17-year-old acrobat. Their reviews all advised her to temper her fireworks with...