Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime tenet in President Hoover's international credo is, as all the world now knows, limitation, of armaments. He has hammered relentlessly away at the thesis that Armies now overburden the world, that the quickest way out of the Depression is to reduce war forces and the taxes which support them. Though the U. S. has no sizeable army to cut (138,000 officers & men), the President consented to join the Geneva Conference in the earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress...
...During the boom which preceded the depression, many countries borrowed abroad on a large and even reckless scale. When prices collapsed, these countries experienced great difficulty in meeting their foreign obligations and were compelled, in order to conserve their gold supply and to limit the depreciation of their currencies, to restrict their imports and to control the export of gold...
...Baruch declined appointment to R. F. C. after its chairmanship went to Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Meyer, its presidency to Charles Gates Dawes. All week long President Hoover kept prodding his R. F. C. forward into action. In its final enactment Congress made only three significant changes: 1) a limit of $100,000,000 on individual loans; 2) segregation of $200,000,000 for the relief of depositors in closed banks; 3) a prohibition against rediscounting R. F. C. securities by the Federal Reserve. Objecting to none of these, the President signed the bill (H. R. 7360) within...
...Received from Virginia's Glass a bill, a year in the making, to limit the use of Federal Reserve credit by speculators; to increase branch banking; to create a corporation to liquidate closed banks. ¶ Received from the Committee on Manufactures a favorable report on a bill by Wisconsin's La Follette to appropriate $375,000,000 for direct Unemployment Relief ("dole") by the States. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Wisconsin's Elaine instructing the Attorney General not to compromise the Government's monopoly suit against Radio Corp. in a consent decree...
...order to limit the applicants for seats for the performances to the capacity of the auditorium, it will be necessary for students desiring tickets to present their bursar's cards at R University Hall...