Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ways and Means Committee Wesley E. Disney, Oklahoma's grey, square-jawed reactionary Democrat, hurried a bill to repeal the President's $25,000 salary limit. Wary of a veto, Disney made his bill a rider on the Administration's urgent legislation raising the statutory limit of the national debt to $210,000,000,000. Franklin Roosevelt would have to sign that...
...generous for the peace of the world, we must be. . .. To paraphrase the words of our gallant ally, Winston Churchill ... we were not elected by our constituents to preside over the liquidation of America's best interests, either at home or abroad. The sky's the limit of those interests. The time...
...Faculty meeting of Tuesday afternoon passed on these provisions designed to curb cutting, which, according to Hanford was increasing and inexcusable under present conditions. No definite limit has been set on cuts but under the new system attendance will be "required," and the Administrative Board will exclude persistent offenders from their courses or take other disciplinary action...
...there was such a thing as a limit. Last fortnight a joint committee of the Idaho House and Senate figured up the cost of the grants (over $13,560,000); looked up the State budget for public assistance (under $5,550,000); checked up prospective State revenues ("materially reduced"). Last week, as the only way out, the Idaho Legislature voted to repeal...
...Senate, crusty, old Walter F. George, chairman of the Finance Committee, moved to increase the national debt limit to $210,000,000,000 (limit in 1939: $45,000,000,000). Said he: that is the Treasury's estimate of what the debt will be on July...