Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the tax bill with amendments (TIME, April 16), boosting surtaxes and estate taxes, adding an extra 10% to all income taxes payable next year; adding also Senator La Follette's proviso for making all income tax returns public records subject to inspection, and imposing a 3? per lb. tax on coconut oil in spite of the President's anxiety to have that tax omitted because of the heavy burden it would put on Philippine commerce with the U. S.; sent the bill to conference for a good long wrangle...
...bill which the President sent to the Ways & Means Committee was actually briefer than his message. It would authorize him to make trade agreements of three years duration, with the proviso that thereafter they could be terminated on six months notice. His power to raise or lower tariffs by 50% to fulfill the terms of such agreements would not extend to putting articles on the free list or taking them off. He argued that such tariff-flexing was necessary to bargain with foreign nations and to put his bargains into effect without waiting for the uncertain assent of the Congress...
...hundred and nineteen favored co-educational learning with the proviso that it be confined to the class-room, 12 considered it distracting, and six reported that they would have to see it in practice before they could tell...
...strongly urge all other Governments participating in the [World Economic] Conference to agree that they will not, before the 12th of June nor during the proceedings of the conference, adopt any new initiatives which might increase the many varieties of difficulties now arresting international commerce, subject to the proviso that they retain the right to withdraw from this agreement at any time after July 31, 1933, on giving one month's previous notice to the conference...
Most important of all is this final, negative proviso: "It follows that, in adopting this report, the members of. the League intend to abstain, particularly as regards the existing regime in Manchuria [i. e. the "Government of Manchukuo"] from any act which might prejudice or delay the carrying out of the recommendations of the said report. They will continue not to recognize this regime, either de jure or de facto...