Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"With it [a workable flexible provision] the country should be freed from further general revision for many years to come. . . .
"In this highly complicated and intricately organized and rapidly shifting economic world, the time has come when a more scientific and businesslike method of tariff revision must be devised. Toward this the new flexible provision takes a long step. ... If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions should prove insufficient...
(Observers were puzzled by the President's emphasis on "the new flexible provision ... a long step." The new flexible provision is less flexible than the old. Previously the President could, upon being advised by the tariff commission that a rate needed altering, make any change he saw fit up...
Another reason why the buyer was not specified in the Volstead Act was Dry fear that such a provision would endanger the bill's passage. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, framer of the 18th Amendment, was among those who reasoned thus. The Supreme Court's decision and a decade of...
Wilbur announced that the U. S. had just taken title to 13,000 acres of timberland owned by Sugar Pine Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr...