Word: recommending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the U. S. "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." So says the U. S. Constitution. President Hoover last week obeyed the injunction for his third time in 21 months of office. He did not go to the Capitol himself. Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra. The Nation's legislators take an opportunity like this to go and eat their luncheons, gossip in the lobbies...
...feel warranted in asking the Congress for an appropriation of from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. In connection therewith we need some authority to make enlarged temporary advances of Federal-highway aid to the States. I recommend that this appropriation be made distributable to the different departments upon recommendation of a committee of the Cabinet and approval by the President. . . . "The Congress will have presented to it numbers of projects, some of them under the guise of, rather than the reality of, their use of employment during the depression. . . . I can not emphasize too strongly the absolute necessity...
...Muscle Shoals, bus regulation, relief of congestion in the courts, reorganization of border patrol in prevention of smuggling, law enforcement in the District of Columbia. . . . It is desirable that these measures should be completed. . . . There are a number of questions which, if time does not permit action, I recommend should be placed in consideration . . . for subsequent action." Here the President briefly outlined the following subjects: 1) regulation of interstate electrical power; 2) consolidation of railways; 3) revision of the anti-Trust laws; 4) repeal of the capital-gains tax; 5) further restriction of immigration; 6) strengthening the deportation laws...
...almost forget her 52nd birthday last week. She was irate because she learned almost at the last minute that a committee of the conference, a committee which Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service headed and to which she belonged, was prepared to recommend that child hygiene, maternity and infancy work of her Children's Bureau be transferred to the Public Health Service...
Surgeon General Cumming's committee decided not to recommend the transfer. But the proposal is not dead. A "continuation committee" of the conference will weigh the matter for future report to conference members...