Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Sustained (193-to-158) President Hoover's veto of the first deficiency bill. The President disapproved the measure on the ground that Congressional review of tax refunds over $20,000 was an unconstitutional invasion of executive authority. Later a substitute for the first deficiency bill, without the objectionable...
By this recent action, the House has made even more obvious the anomalous position of Prohibition in the federal law. The country as a whole has expressed itself against the amendment; the House has refused to sanction the proper enforcement of it; yet with all this, the law remains on...
¶ Read a motion by Arkansas' Robinson to invoke cloture in debate on the Glass banking bill (see col. 2). ¶ Adopted (52-to-17) an amendment to the Glass banking bill limiting national branch banking to States which permit State branch banking. ¶ Heard Indiana's Robinson...
The Revenue Act of 1932 imposed an import tax (tariff) of 10? per cwt. on coal, except from countries against which the U. S. had a favorable trade balance on that commodity. As the U. S. exports more coal to Canada than Canada sends to the U. S., the Dominion...
"If, however, another class as large as the Class of 1936 should be admitted next year, provision of additional assistants for Freshman courses must be made if sections are not to be enlarged further. At the present time 14 Freshman courses have an average of more than 25 men per...