Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most appeasing of all, Secretary Morgenthau announced after a lunch at the White House that President Roosevelt had dropped his plan to ask Congress for an increase in the U. S. statutory debt limit, from...
...Garner gang, fighting an intangible rebellion, is bound together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided, can get results was shown last week: the President abandoned his plan, opposed by Garner, Harrison & Co., to increase the limit of the public debt...
...Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...
...declared a complete blockade. The Loyalist coastline was declared "closed to navigation for all classes of embarkation, regardless of their flag and merchandise." Ships were warned that at several points the Franco Navy had submarines waiting with orders to "sink every ship that tries to pass the three-mile limit, no matter what flag...
...previous merger proposals, subway bondholders would have exchanged their securities for bonds issued by a Board of Transit Control and not guaranteed by the city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City...