Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge found it necessary to have the State Department explain why he did not sign the proposed Amendment when passed by Congress. Amendments to the Constitution are not placed before the President. They are passed by each House of Congress (with a two-thirds vote), signed by the Chairman of each house and sent directly to the states for ratification or rejection. The absence of the President's signature signifies nothing; he is not supposed to sign...
...follow the Federal model in income tax and to set up high inheritance taxes is increasing. Some states, such as Ohio and Virginia, have gone far enough to induce wealthy people to move to less exacting commonwealths. Florida, going to the opposite extreme, is putting out a "Welcome" sign for these people*. Already numbers of them are there. Doubtless more will go, seeking good treatment in a taxing world...
...amusing as it was surprising, was the eviction from the Forbidden City of P'u-yi, * Son of Heaven, Emperor of China. Acting upon the orders of General Feng, "Chinese Christian Soldier," soldiers took possession of the Forbidden City, forced the 18-year-old Emperor to sign a new version of the abdication agreement of 1912, wherein he was promised a life income of $4,000,000 a year, retention of his vast Imperial estates and his titles...
Meanwhile, it troubled the Emperor not a bit to sign away his vast revenues which have, for the past ten years, been sadly in arrears. He stipulated that certain sums should be used for the erection of factories for his Manchu retainers to work in, but apparently made no other objections. He was then escorted under armed guard to the house of his father, Prince Chun, brother of Emperor Kuang-Hsii; he became...
...Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. The writer will be in Cambridge tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning at the Phillips Brooks House and will be glad to confer with any men of the Episcopalian faith who would be interested in teaching In China. Those interested are asked to sign up in the blue book at Phillips Brooks House at once...