Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet this situation I recommend: 1) that the Federal tax on gasoline (1 per gal.) be continued until June 30. 1934, producing about $137,000,000 additional revenue; 2) that the manufacturers' excise taxes now imposed on certain 'articles be extended and in part replaced by a general uniform tax (excluding food). The annual yield of such a general tax at 2 1/4% would be approximately $355,000,000. The additional $492,000,000 of revenue produced in this way will avoid a further in crease in the public debt [i. e.-balance the budget...
...Britain. France and other debtor powers the State Department dispatched notes to the effect that the U. S. would expect full payment Dec. 15 and that the President would recommend another debt commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
...Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, has been appointed by Governor Ely to serve on a commission of seven which will recommend suitable legislation for Massachusetts in the event of repeal or modification of the Federal Prohibition laws. The group has been given carte blanche by Governor Ely to carry on its work as it sees...
Whereas, it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor. . . . -Now, therefore, I do recommend . . . that we may all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks-for His kind care and protection of the people of this country-for the signal and manifold, mercies and the favorable interposition of His providence-for the great degree of tranquillity, . union and plenty which we have enjoyed-for the civil and religious liberty with which...
...known and can be combated directly. But thousands of investigators are on the track. Although Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Columbia University last week growled to the Manhattan colloquium that there are not more than 50 competent cancer research workers in the world and therefore he would not recommend large endowments for cancer research laboratories such as Dr. James Ewing urges (TIME, Jan. 17, 1931), some one of the lesser multitude may any day sniff out some great discovery in the cancer field...