Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the White House came word the President would recommend to the next Congress vigorous measures to prevent the " bootlegging" of inadmissible aliens. It is said that smuggling of aliens has developed into as much of a business as rum running; any inadmissible alien can enter the country for $500; streams of illicit immigrants are pouring in from Cuba, Mexico and British Columbia...
...Seitz and other critics have touched upon an essential point in deploring the lack of interest in world problems and affairs. Sentimental enthusiasm has little to recommend it; intelligent interest is a necessity in the development of citizenship. In whatever way such interest is created, its importance in an institution of the kind Harvard aims to be is undoubted. Mere intellectual development is of little avail without practical application...
...Question. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act contained for the first time in national history a provision for a flexible or elastic tariff to be applied entirely at the discretion of the Chief Executive. On recommendation of the Tariff Commission he may raise or lower duties (not more than 50% of the amount fixed by law). The question which arose in the Tariff Commission was whether it had the power to investigate and recommend changes in the tariff on its own initiative, or whether it must confine its consideration to specific tariff rates against which complaints were made. The Republican members...
...solely because they are women."¶ There was no crying of "Louder, louder" as at male conventions. When delegates could not hear they quietly raised their hands. ¶ Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, advocated participation by the United States in the World Court. ¶ A resolution was adopted to recommend State laws providing: "An equal interest of spouses in each other's real estate. A half interest and control by each spouse of all property acquired after marriage by either or both of the spouses, with power in each spouse to devise and bequeath one-half interest in this...
...critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient." And, if they seek suggestions either conclusive or startling they will look in vain. What they may forget is the fact that the obvious answer is often the right...