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...recovered against the United States or other claim duly allowed by legal authority shall be presented to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment and the plaintiff or claimant therein shall be indebted to the United States in any manner, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to withhold payment of an amount of such judgment or claim equal to the debt thus due to the United States. . . - Act of March...
...Princeton's Professor (now President) Harold Willis Dodds, whom Governor Moore had invited to survey the State Government (TIME, July 3). By the terms of the Princeton Plan, the Fiscal Commissioner was to be a dictator of the State's finances, with power to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel. Last week Governor Moore, still true to the Princeton Plan, selected John Colt, 43, able Princeton banker and onetime assistant professor of politics at the university, to fill the null position. Fiscal Commissioner Colt, dapper, popular, brainy, is a Republican. His appointment gave evidence that Democratic Governor Moore...
...California passed a bill fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment for kidnappers who harm their victims.* In Albany, Governor Lehman urged New York's Legislature to make kidnapping punishable by death unless the victim is returned before trial; to make it a felony to pay ransom or withhold information about a kidnapping case...
...Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
...State Government, Alfred Emanuel Smith, loudly declared that such a budget was the most crying governmental need today.) New Jersey's bill created the job of State Fiscal Commissioner, to be appointed by the Governor and solely responsible to him. The Commissioner was authorized to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel, save much money. The Legislature was still to fix the maximum appropriation but the Governor was to control its minimum spending. Senator Dryden Kuser, the measure's sponsor, hurried across to the Assembly chamber to speed it through. The legislative wags put a cup of ice water...