Word: limits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prearrangement with the Republicans, Democrat Tydings of Maryland, whom Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year, got the floor. The galleries were packed. Majority Leader Barkley's jaw muscles twitched in angry impotence. Sweetly relishing his revenge, Senator Tydings cried: "Shall we, now that the time limit is expiring, recapture the right vested in the Congress by the Constitution to fix the value of the nation's money? Or shall we give up that power in advance, without an emergency, to the President of the United States, and deprive ourselves of the power, in case of future need...
...First to talk tough was Winston Churchill, Wartime First Lord of the Admiralty. He addressed to Führer Hitler a warning to "pause, consider well before you take a plunge into the terrible unknown. . . . The British nation and surely also the British Empire have reached the limit of their patience...
...Ways & Means Committee's tax-appeasement bill, sent it to the Senate. It would 1) abolish the undistributed profits tax, substituting a flat 18% corporate income tax on earnings over $25,000; 2) permit a two-year carryover of profits & losses and remove the $2,000 loss limit for corporations; 3) permit corporations to revalue upward their securities for two years, to ease their excess profits taxes; 4) permit retirement of bonds and notes below par without taxation. > (In Appropriations Committee) rejected President Roosevelt's and Admiral Byrd's request for a $340,000 claiming expedition...
...testified to the Congressmen earnestly; begged them not to limit WPA construction projects to $25,000, not to kill the Theatre Project, not to believe that the Workers Alliance could dictate to him, not to cut his administrative cost allowance below 5%. He invited the committee to cross-question him, but when he finished, he got the silent treatment. Mr. Woodrum just said, "Thank you, Colonel, for your appearance," and sent the committee's bill to the printer...
...limit on WPA building projects was raised from...