Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political start as the islands' first civil governor. Democrat Francis Burton Harrison proclaimed a "new era" when in 1913 he arrived to govern them. The Jones Act of 1916 declared: "It is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established." Said Presidents Harding and Coolidge: "The time is not yet." In 1928 and 1932 the Democratic platform declared for "immediate independence...
...island export tax equal to 5% of the U. S. tariff rate on different goods will begin in the sixth year, rise to 25% in the tenth. On July 4 following the ten-year period the President will proclaim the Philippines a sovereign commonwealth and the U. S. will withdraw all civil (but not military) authority...
...House of Representatives embraced national Prohibition when by a vote of 287-10-100 it adopted a Senate resolution submitting the 18th Amendment to the nation. Fifteen years and four days later, on Dec. 21, 1932 the House of Representatives started to withdraw from national Prohibition when by a vote of 23040-165 it passed a bill of its own to legalize 3.2% beer and tax it $5 per bbl.* Not once in the long interim had Wets mustered a winning House majority...
...that he is a Confederate Gray." It was the magazine's farewell salute, after 40 years' service. Death had cut the ranks of Confederate veterans to 4,500. Depression had forced the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which kept the magazine alive in recent years, to withdraw its support. Circulation of the final issue was 6,000. Its peak had been...
...those who have already been accepted are many men who had planned to attend the School in previous years, but have been forced to cancel their applications, because they lacked the necessary funds. A good many who have been in the School for one year and have had to withdraw and work for two or three years to earn enough to continue are now able to take advantage of this extra session with the lowered living costs resulting from its shortened period of time, it was stated...