Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover recommended increased appropriations for the foreign service, Prohibition, law enforcement, river & harbor improvements, care of Indians, forest protection...
...with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committee-in secret session-to explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows him violates the Budget Law and is subject to instant dismissal by the President...
...routine operation of Government-8? ($300,307,860, including the cost of Congress, the U. S. courts, foreign relations, law enforcement, the postal deficit...
...Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial law, stationed Marines with machine guns on President Borno's palace lawn. President Borno announced that he would not seek a third term...