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...President . . . shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.-U. S. Constitution...
...industrial relief. Prime uncertainty: taxation. Democrats in the House where such measures must originate, had no desire to sponsor a tax upping bill which might handicap them in the campaign. They much preferred to wait and see what President Hoover-who is, after all, responsible for Federal finance-would recommend. If he wanted an increase in taxes to meet the deficit House Democrats might give it to him-and the blame as well...
...quick return to better times, publicly put their faith in Secretary Mellon and large borrowings to pull the Treasury through. Today these same Senators and Congressmen were concurring in the immediate necessity for tax-upping. They talked with President Hoover and left the White House convinced that he would recommend ways & means of raising more revenue. They heard that Secretary Mellon had reached what he felt was the end of his rope in putting out deficit bonds and now wanted authoritative instructions from Congress as to the next move. They were well aware of the political riskiness of lifting...
...House in scarcely likely to contaminate his to such an extent as to make him ineligible for another. It has little or nothing to do with whether or not he would make a desirable member of the House. To rule out a student who has much to recommend him because of such an irrelevant factor would be absurd. Even if the regulation had a logical excuse it should be one adjustable to particular situations, instead of stringently enforced with no regard for circumstances. There is no reason why the Houses should antagonize even a small number of undergraduates by adopting...
...generally known that Palaeopitus has it within its power to recommend to the administration the separation of certain undergraduates. This power has not been invoked for four or five years. Such a procedure is analagous to the sawed-off shotgun tactics of hooded towns-people. At times it is well justified, provided the leaders are responsible men competent of cool judgment...