Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated the omnibus economy bill...
...Approved a bill by Maryland's Goldsborough ordering the Federal Reserve to raise and maintain wholesale commodity prices at pre-Depression levels by stabilizing the dollar. Democratic leaders made the bill a party measure. ¶Completed drafting an omnibus economy bill to save $263,277.000 by: 1) cutting all Federal wages over $1.000 by 11%; 2) consolidating the Army & Navy into one department; 3) reducing the compensation paid hospitalized veterans; 4) abolishing the Army & Navy transport service. The President would be empowered to consolidate but not abolish overlapping executive boards & bureaus...
...passed a bill repealing 1,006 old sections of the Revised Statutes and sent the measure to the Senate. The legal effect of such legislation was to fit the Revised Statutes precisely to the Code, thereby, for all practical purposes, making the Code the law of the land. The omnibus repealer provided that the elimination of these 1,006 old statutes was not to be interpreted that they were really the law when wiped off the books...
...take courage from reflecting on the case of Authoress Dorothy Savers. One of the first women to take an Oxford degree (first-class honors in Medieval Literature), she was considered one of the most brilliant scholars of her year. Now a noted detective-story author & editor (The Omnibus of Crime), her favorite recreation is reading other people's detective stories. Withal, she is married (to Capt. Atherton Fleming), has shingled hair, a merry countenance...
...however, grown no heavier. Last week the Public Service Commission, looking no doubt at D&H's net operating income ($1,585.000 for the first seven months this year against $2,663.000 last) took pity and reversed its decision. Passengers up Ausable valley must now travel by omnibus along the fine concrete highway that parallels the rails...