Word: limits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disapproved. Among the last vetoes: salaries for advisers of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin; $3,000 to relieve Mrs. Bessie Bear Robe, an Indian woman (now dead) who lost her son on a Government reservation; 2? postage for Queens County, N. Y.; a five-year extension to the time-limit (Jan. 2, 1940) for War veterans' compensation claims; permission to the Atlantic Coast States to make compacts regulating fishing; a bill turning over to Nevada twelve square miles of U. S. land near Boulder...
...Passed, after four weeks' haggling, a bill amending the Social Security Act: 1) to spare employes and employers $825,000,000 in taxes over the next three years by freezing the old-age payroll tax at 1% through 1942; 2) to limit the unemployment insurance payroll tax to the first $3,000 of earnings cutting off about $65,000,000 in taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members...
...last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...Patterson's dismay in 1937 Pan American ordered Boeing 307s just under the weight limit. Later American and T.W.A. began flirting with heavy planes...
...Calais, France, a U. S. tourist, miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...