Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give back to the Federal government where the Constitution placed it, the control of currency and credit." Mr. Goodwin places all his eggs in the Townsend Plan basket. This plan provides for a monthly pension of $200 to all men over SIXTY with the proviso that the recipients must spend it all within the month. The money is to be raised through a sales tax, but when the committee questioned him on the details of the plan he replied that he was not so much interested in the details as in the broad principles involved. Note: If you think this...
Nevertheless, the embattled United Textile Workers offered to haul up the cease-firing signal for the next six months? with the proviso that it would continue organization work within the industry...
...decide who should represent labor in collective bargaining. If Amalgamated had been promised one membership on this board, it might well have been satisfied. The steelmasters. however, had no intention of giving Amalgamated the privilege of speaking for all steel labor. They conditioned their offer with the proviso that no member of the Board should have any professional connection with either employers or employes...
...part of an accompanying message to Congress, the President declared himself in favor of broadening the metallic base of U. S. money by the use of both silver and gold-but only on condition other nations joined the U. S. in a world move toward bimetallism. The proviso overshadowed the proposal. Although the President expressed hope of getting international action, every statesman knew that no important nation except the U. S. is willing even to consider bimetallism...
Signing the sugar control bill (TIME, April 30), the President ordered the duty on Cuban sugar cut from 2? to 1½?a lb. with the proviso that the processing tax imposed should not exceed the tariff cut. Also signed was the Revenue...