Word: limited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaw was arrested for driving his automobile too slowly (15 m.p.h.). The State of Rhode Island, in an effort to speed up traffic, now has a law that passenger cars on open roads must travel at least 35 m.p.h. Indiana and Rhode Island notwithstanding, the legal speed limit of Prague, Czechoslovakia remains a conservative 9 m.p.h. (15 kilometers) where it was fixed by the Bohemian Government...
...Adopted (48-37) the conference report on the Census & Reapportionment bill. ¶ Rejected a resolution by Idaho's Borah to instruct the finance committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules. ¶ Rejected (46-43) the Debentureless conference report on Farm Relief; later adopted...
When Idaho's Senator Borah attempted to instruct the Finance Committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules, Leader Watson interposed "violent" objections...
Last week Chicago officials admitted that the city faced bankruptcy, that it had borrowed up to the legal limit on anticipated revenue, that only a Businessman's Commission could prevent financial disaster. Taxes were far behind because of assessments rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and policemen, were threatened with a prolonged suspension of pay. The extravagance of the Thompson administration was directly blamed. The Businessman's Commission, said the Chicago Tribune, was "a confession of moral and intellectual bankruptcy which is far more serious than fiscal bankruptcy...
...laws to limit teaching any scientific doctrine so well established, so widely accepted, ''would be a profound mistake...