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¶ Defeated after two days of debate a resolution for a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit the issuing of tax-exempt securities.
2) The proposed Amendment to the Constitution to prevent the issuance of tax-exempt securities was defeated in the House.
The Tax-Exempt Amendment. There came before the House a resolution for a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit in future the issuance of any securities by States or municipalities which should be free from Federal taxation. Such a resolution requires a two-thirds vote in both Houses and ratification by 36...
I want to point out that the word scofflaw was coined to stigmatize only those wets who advocate breaking or who do themselves break the law of the country. If a man conscientiously believes that the modification of the Volstead Act or the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment would be...
At the head of the list stands the proposal to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. Following it comes the demand for the retention of compulsory chapel, the News' first definite stand on this perennial question.