Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bills which would have doubled our annual cost of government. Had there not been a constant insistence [by the speaker] upon rigid economy, many of these bills would have become law. A decrease of less than 10% in the income of the nation would produce a deficit in our present budget...
Plainly the President wishes to leave a surplus for Mr. Hoover. Observers inferred that he did not consider it "big business" to drain the present treasury for cruisers or prohibition enforcement...
...rebuke to a joke. Since it gave a fortune to Secretary Mellon, Mr. Mellon had written a letter about it. And Mr. Mellon had said he didn't want the money. Enforcement, wrote he, needed study. Ways must be found to perfect coast guarding, to relieve court congestion (at present 21,000 cases await trial), to improve enforcement personnel. Mr. McBride looked over this letter and was inclined to agree with...
...amazed at your failure to recognize great dissatisfaction with inadequacy of present program and to grasp eagerly opportunity presented by proposed appropriation for immediate development of more adequate program...
...cannot appropriation be made subject to such distribution as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine after thorough investigation; part for Coast Guard, part for customs, part especially for Canadian border; part for doubling or trebling present field force, increasing salaries to induce higher type men to apply for this responsible and hazardous work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals...