Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to limit the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission in fixing differing freight rates for long and short hauls...
...believed in Washington that if the Dawes report is soon accepted in Europe and if the bill for the eight new cruisers is passed, the President would call a new arms limitation conference to set limits on lighter vessels and air craft. The present treaties restrict only craft of more than 10,000 tons. With eight new 10,000-ton cruisers authorized, we could go to such a conference prepared to bargain by giving up something. Otherwise, we should go to such a conference asking other nations to limit their cruiser strength, but with no similar sacrifice to offer...
...There is no limit to the amount an individual may give to this committee. Large contributions will be so divided as to give full observance to the requirements of the statutes. All contributions must be voluntary...
...second sentence seemed to imply a deliberate attempt to evade the law. It was discovered, however, that there was no Federal statute to be evaded, for the reason that there really is no legal limit to the amount an individual may give for such a campaign...
...JUANES?Marcel Prevost? Brentano ($2.00). Dedicated by its translator (Jenny Covan), for some inexplicable reason, to Miss Geraldine Farrar, this ultra-Gallic spectacle of feminine psychology concerns itself with the author's idea of post-War France. It advances the age limit commonly allotted to heroines; all four of these are 40 or more. But apparently that fact only makes their aim, when tilting at their windmills, a little more deadly. They proceed devastatingly on their way, and all young rivals of 20 or so are pushed out of the picture...