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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Rivers & Harbors Bill, including amendments to: 1) limit the water to be diverted from the Great Lakes by the Chicago Drainage Canal; 2) limit Federal operation of New York State's canal system to barge traffic, so as not to compete with the proposed St. Lawrence waterway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...lengthy process of development (for which the Commission is careful to set no time limit), let the various provinces of British India assume the form of States under a broad and flexible Federal constitution. Eventually the native states of India (at the pleasure of their rajahs and maharajahs) would be expected to join the Indian federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: For Your Majesty | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...More cautious than many of these priests, the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo declared in their joint pastoral letter (TIME, June 16) that it would be a "grave sin" and the Vatican's White Book says that priests who exceeded this limit have been "recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Erastian! | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...betting commissioner then books bets, the limit being 100 ticals ($44). Bettors who wish to avoid the 10% house commission make side wagers, sometimes involving wives, houses, livestock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ferocious Minnows | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Point of Argument. A focus of Treaty argument more popular and pointed than the secret document argument between Senate and Administration continued last week to be the 18 big (10,000-ton) cruisers allowed the U. S. by the Treaty and Britain's insistence upon that limitation. The Navy's General Board, as a maximum concession, agreed last year to a reduction from 23, the number authorized by Congress, to 21 for the purposes of the London Conference. Admiral Pratt, when chosen to be chief U. S. naval adviser at London, protested against any cut of the General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treaty Tussles | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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