Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent despatches from Washington indicate that President Hoover will probably sign the tariff bill, if and when it finally reaches him. Official statements endorsing the bill have been issued by the Republican National Committee, which presumably reflects the viewpoint of the Administration. The revised flexible provision is extolled as the...
Guilty consciences are revealed in some of the pronouncements of the Republican leaders. Their own words imply that the Smoot-Hawley bill is in general a pretty bad hodge-podge of log-rolling and special pleading, and the new flexible provision is offered as the only hope of improving the...
If the bill goes through in its present form President Hoover will be able, upon the basis of the reports of the Tariff Commission, to transform it into something better in line with national welfare. The experience of the past few years indicates, however, that it will take a considerable...
Professor Corwin, Constitutional Interpretation, assures us that no such provision could possibly be read into our present pledge (even by the Supreme Court). This is a very interesting fact. But as we have said, we take no stand on the matter. The Daily Princetonian
Last autumn the Democratic-Progressive coalition voted into the measure the Export Debenture Plan and a provision taking from the President his power to flex rates 50%. Later the Senate, passing the Bill, sent it to conference with the House with instructions to its conferees not to compromise. The House...