Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover issued two proclamations last week: 1) he designated May 1 as Child Health day; 2) he created a special board of inquiry under the Railway Labor Act, which averted a strike of 4,000 shop and train employes on the Texas and Pacific...
...Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development of inland waterways as a part of the Hoover farm relief...
Public hearings brought into this room 1,200 witnesses in 45 days who gave 11,000 printed pages of evidence on changing the 1922 Tariff Act. Now, preparatory to the special session of Congress, the majority members of this committee were writing an administration bill which would fulfill the Hoover campaign promises. The President wanted tariff revision limited to agricultural products and a few special but unnamed commodities. These G. O. P. committeemen were inclined to give him what he wanted. But outside the locked door, potent U. S. manufacturers ululated demands that all duty rates be promptly and emphatically...
...election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon found that more revenue must be forthcoming to keep up the splurge. In March he called a special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana is, among other things, an oil state, with many a refinery for its own production and for shipments from Mexico and South America. Governor Long proposed a 5 cent tax upon every barrel...
...other changes have been made. Three special fields have been opened, one treating types of sociological theory, another the relationship which does and should exist between the individual and society, and the third the social history of the United States. The final change is a widening in the number and range of the related courses which will be required. Preparation for the final examination at the end of the Senior year will involve selection of courses in the several social sciences offered by different departments. Students will be expected to attain in these, by the close of their Sophomore year...