Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They want to make Congress "truly a deliberative and debating body" by giving the House the right to withdraw any bill from Committee at any time by vote of 150 of the House, restriction of the power of the Rules Committee to limit the opportunity for amending and discussing bills on the floors, and the right to hold roll calls on amendments to bills...
Some time ago Signer Gentile, Minister of Education, hatched a little plot against Italian students. The main features of the plot were: a) to make it obligatory to pass all examinations before being admitted to a higher class, and b) to limit the number of State Schools (not elementary schools) and the number of students to each course...
...imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. This and later Federal statutes, lumping all forms of contraceptive information indiscriminately with pornography and obscenity, prohibit the advertising, manufacturing and selling of, or interstate or foreign commerce in such articles or knowledge. The effect has been to limit their manufacture, sale and the giving of information to individual States. Nineteen States have clear and definite legislation essentially similar to the Federal statutes. Twenty-five other States have more ambiguous laws relating to "obscene, vulgar and indecent" objects or written matter of "immoral purpose." Four States?Georgia, New Hampshire, New Mexico...
...foreign garrisons are cut to a "dangerously low limit." The regular Army at home is strained by the effort to furnish instruction to civilian training camps. "As a result the morale of the regular Army . . is below what we should demand...
...European colonization has passed, and with it the necessity of protection for these "little sisters" by the United States. But peace and tranquility on the southern continent are still rather abstract ideals. The aftermath of the failure of the fifth Pan American Conference at Santiago to limit the armaments of Argentine, Brazil, and Chile has been a renewal of military and naval competition...