Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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(2 of 2) When in 1927 he re placed Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. in the Senate, the State soon discovered it had not suffered by the ex change. Chunky, genial, levelheaded. Senator Wagner has been pounding away at Unemployment Relief for two years. Said he last week: "The Administration...
*This provision, once passed by the Senate as a separate bill, was reincorporated in the Wagner measure to get it into conference.
"We therefore believe that the people should have an opportunity to pass upon a proposed amendment, the provision of which, while retaining in the Federal Government power to preserve the gains already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic, shall allow
What the plank meant constitutionally was obvious. A Republican Congress was to propose to the States another amendment, not specifically repealing the 18th Amendment but superseding it exactly as the 17th Amendment for the direct election of Senators superseded the constitutional provision for their selection by State Legislatures; exactly as...
These changes reduced the total of the Senate's savings to $156,000,000 or less. Critics of the bill pointed out that it contained a duplicate provision on annual leaves without pay which would shrink its total by another $22,000,000.