Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been hounding Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler"), ever since he took office last year. It is charged that his 1928 election cost him and his friends $100,000 and was thereby a violation of the State's Corrupt Practices Act (legal campaign expenditure limit: $4,000). Chief hounder: able Philip La Follette, brother of able Senator Robert Marion La Follette, who, with others, instituted court action for the Governor's removal. The Kohler defense: a Governor can be removed only by impeachment...
...result of the canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...
...American Petroleum Institute's voluntary nationwide agreement to hold down oil production, only to have the Department of Justice rule that such a scheme was possibly an anti-trust violation (TIME, April 22). His third proposal was a series of state treaties under the Constitution to limit the outflow of oil. Nine oil-state governors met at Colorado Springs to cold-shoulder this plan. Last week in California, Secretary Wilbur put fresh momentum into this major Hoover policy by pleading for voluntary intrastate agreements among the oil producers...
...want to avoid 'drowning' the gasoline market with the flood of Kettleman Oil." He proposed four remedies : i ) Pooling all profits from the field according to acre age; 2) Purchase by big companies of all small holdings; 3) Government purchase of lands not brought into the limitation agreement; 4) A holding company to con trol the whole dome's development. Oil Oyster. Secretary Wilbur's words were aimed directly at "Judge" E. D. Reiter, smart lawyer, licensed aviator, chairman of the Kettleman Hills conservation committee, of the Santa Fe Springs conservation committee, president of the Independent...
...consider war boats in six main classes, the classification being primarily in terms of gun calibers not tons (i. e. two ships, both of exactly 8,000 tons, but one having six-inch guns and the other eight-inch, would fall into different classes); 3) Within the limit of the total tonnage assigned by the conference to a given nation, that nation might upon giving appropriate notice, transfer part of its ships from one class to another ?might for example mount eight-inch guns on a ship that had previously carried six-inchers...