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The executive order creating his office did not empower Administrator Sawyer to spend all the $3,300,000,000 authorized by Congress for public works, at an estimated ratio of a million jobs per billion dollars. His orders were strict. He was given 30 days to distribute $400,000,000...
Also on the heels of the Rockefeller switch, William Gibbs McAdoo, longtime temperance champion, came out with a defensive proposal. The legal machinery for resubmission or repeal would grind too slowly to be effective, thought he. Although legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on...
¶ Voted (258-to-115) to empower its special economy committee now studying executive reorganization to prepare and bring legislation directly to the floor.
Having finished shadowboxing, the House Judiciary Committee last week was confronted with a tangible, important Prohibition problem. For weeks its members have been struggling with the legislative recommendations of the Wickersham Commission (TIME, Jan. 20). Particularly hard to deal with was the plan to empower U. S. commissioners to try...
The bill will empower the Grand Council and subordinate Fascist organizations to draw up the one and only list of candidates for Parliament which will be submitted to the electorate. Italian voters may then approve or reject the entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but...