Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President not only to abolish and consolidate all executive departments but also to control the public purse by reducing or suspending appropriations fixed by law and by cutting Federal salaries at will-all to help balance the Budget. Declared the Speaker: "I'm ready to go the limit and the limit is the Constitution...
Wherever held, Manager Henderson intends to limit the races to high-speed ships, eliminate events for commercial types, cut out all cross-country derbies except the transcontinental Bendix Trophy; slash admission prices...
Calm as a badger, up rose Idaho's wrinkled Borah, seldom the man to stop a good fight. He wanted to make way for an amendment to the Glass bill which would make it less obnoxious to the Long faction. He asked for unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill in a proposal tantamount to cloture. "If we cannot secure agreement," he added grimly, "I myself am going to make a speech." He secured agreement...
...answer to the requests I sent out to department heads to save and have before me when I took office a statement of further economies they were going to effect, and that I had received many letters, some of which showed further economies and others have gone to the limit in the matter of those already made. The queries were put about when the time was up and what would be done before the budget was closed...
When Princeton University opened last autumn, its matriculants were the largest in number, the ablest in mind ever accepted. Princeton could very well maintain its standards as they are and still keep its classes up to the prescribed limit. But liberalism is increasing in the secondary schools; work is being done which does not fit in with ordinary college entrance requirements. Last week the Princeton board of trustees directed that the admission requirements for Princeton be revised. Henceforth, instead of being obliged to present 15 units of credit (each representing one year's work in one subject), a student...