Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Banks. "A method should be devised to make available quickly to depositors some portion of their deposits in closed banks. Such provision would go far to relieve distress in a multitude of families. ... I recommend the prompt improvement of the banking laws. The Congress should investigate the need for separation between different kinds of banking; an enlargement of branch banking ... enlarged membership in the Federal Reserve system...
...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...
...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...