Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advocate simple and direct action towards the goal of universal peace will be astounded at the immense complication of committees proposed. No fewer than twelve agencies for collecting and disseminating knowledge are to be let loose upon a protesting world. And the objects of study do not all recommend themselves to popular agitation: the current arguments for war as a cosmic necessity, the standing incentives to war and their abatement through legislation, and the establishment of a bureau of conciliation under the department of state are a few of the perplexities to be worked out. Of course, these are excellent...
Motivated by the Anglo-Saxon urge of law-enforcement, two bodies made contrary recommendations on the same day. Both aimed to allay the almost universally acknowledged super-Nation in the enforcement of its prohibition law. One, the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, of which Chief Justice Taft is Chairman, petitioned Attorney General Stone to recommend, in his report to Congress, that the Prohibition Unit be transferred from the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. The other, the Anti-Saloon League, urged the President to expedite the passage of the Cramton Bill, which would...
...have the honor to inform you that, after due deliberation, His Majesty's Government find themselves unable to recommend the treaties in question to the consideration of Parliament or to submit them to the King for his Majesty's ratification...
Another is likely to be added to the list when Congress assembles; for it is understood that the Administration will recommend that an expenditure of $1,150,000 be made to acquire land and build a new Embassy and Consulate in Tokio, where the old (and inadequate) Embassy was destroyed by the earthquake...
...purposes of investigation but for purposes of research, not for curing an emergency but for preventing recurring emergencies is the board which President Coolidge named last week. It has no official powers nor obligatory duties. Its purpose is to find out and to recommend what steps may be taken to prevent and forestall agricultural depression such as has overtaken the country during the past two or three years...