Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Automobiles. The metals subcommittee of the Finance Committee heard potent motormen recommend a reduction in the automobile tariff from 25%, ad valorem...
Just before it adjourned last week, the Senate was asked by Washington's Senator Jones (Dry author of the Five & Ten law) to pass a resolution, as requested by the President for a joint commission to study Prohibition and recommend if necessary changes in administration and responsibility. The Senate at once began to debate the Hoover attitude on Prohibition. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, thoroughly Dry and now thoroughly aroused, led the attack. His sharp voice crackled, his small body trembled with indignation...
Norman Bel Geddes has been asked to recommend theatrical policies. If his wishes are approved the Fair will include an unprecedented gathering of dramatic talent. There will be perhaps ten theatres, each devoted to some distinct phase of the art, each emphasizing the most advanced ideas which as yet receive little or no support on Manhattan's Broadway or Chicago's Randolph Street. Foreign features-Siamese dancing, marionettes from Java-will be exhibited by natives in the native fashion, not vaudevillized or adapted to U. S. taste. Mr. Geddes is going to suggest an island supper club...
...carefully watched to see if the President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share of attention. But no protest came from the Drys, who viewed the commission as an agency that must inevitably recommend officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly pleased with what some called a "snub" and last week intimated that she would resign her posi...
...recent years a nonexplosive cellulose nitrate type acetate X-ray film has been developed, but the films in the clinic were evidently of the more common and highly inflammable cellulose nitrate type. Under writers recommend that films be stored in metal vaults on the roof rather than in the basement of buildings...