Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Reichstag must now pass or reject the "Liberty law" which forbids German acceptance of the Young Plan, providing prison punishment for German officials, civil or military, who aid in the payment of German reparations...
...Reich who fails to carry out the provisions of the proposed law or violates it by pledging Germany to new reparations payments." Impartial observers concede Hugenberg followers the necessary 4,000,000 votes to bring this law before the Reichstag. It is also probable that the Reichstag would reject it. All branches of the powerful Hugenberg press organization were working last week to whip up the 20,000.000 votes necessary to pass the "Liberty Law" over the Reichstag's rejection. Manifesto. Opponents of the "Liberty Law" were not silent last week. While Hugenberg followers paraded and shouted hoarsely...
Last week the Senate of the U. S., laboring to pass a tariff bill, paused to discuss, vote upon, and reject two proposals designed to secure independence for the Philippine Islands. After Senator William H. King of Utah had suggested immediate Philippine independence, Senator Broussard of Louisiana brought forward the same idea in modified form, together with a provision that Philippine imports should be subject to tariff duties. The King proposal was rejected; the Broussard proposal was overwhelmed...
...United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required by law. The President indicated that he would refer this delicate ethical question to Congress...
...cloture put through a motion adjourning Parliament until autumn. This was done to throttle possibly mischievous polemics on the newly ratified debt settlement. But before M. Briand could form a cabinet he was obliged by custom to reconvoke the Chamber in special session, so that Parliament might endorse or reject his new government. Naturally a chamber just booted into adjournment