Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acts as well as words came from the White House as election aftermath. President Hoover summoned Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock back to Washington from San Francisco just as he was sailing for Hawaii (see p. 20). Estimates were prepared on which President Hoover would "recommend to Congress a special emergency appropriation to be applied to a further intensification of public works ... to provide further employment...
...benevolent despotism" was how Senator Hiram Bingham, returning with a congressional investigating committee from Samoa, last week described to President Hoover the Navy Department's rule over the islands (TIME, Oct. 6). Senator Bingham's commission will recommend a bill of rights, U. S. citizenship, less naval government for Samoans...
...spends each year for liquor, Prohibition would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
Because of the Commission's secretiveness Washington quickly became choked with rumors and reports as to what its conclusions would be. Most Washington correspondents agreed that the Commission, though disappointed in Prohibition, would not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment but would possibly recommend to President Hoover some modification of the Volstead Act to legalize beer and wine...
...careful research that tomorrow there will appear at Sever 11 at 2 o'clock Mr. Harry Irvine the actor. He will talk on an undetermined subject. He has played, in the past with my old friend Herbert Tree and with Forbes Robertson, known to me by reputation only. I recommend him to my disciples. He has many pungent reminiscences worth the hearing...