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... Congress to re- spond to the oft - repeated de- mand of the President and the Secretaries of the Treas- ury to revise the existing tax laws . The cotinuance in force in peace times of taxes de- vised under pressure of im- perative ...
... Congress to re- spond to the oft - repeated de- mand of the President and the Secretaries of the Treas- ury to revise the existing tax laws . The cotinuance in force in peace times of taxes de- vised under pressure of im- perative ...
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... Congress enacted legislation reducing the taxes from eight billions , designed to be raised , to six billions for the first year after the armistice , and to four bil- lions thereafter ; and there the total is left undiminished by our ...
... Congress enacted legislation reducing the taxes from eight billions , designed to be raised , to six billions for the first year after the armistice , and to four bil- lions thereafter ; and there the total is left undiminished by our ...
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... Congress into extraordinary session for imperative pur- poses of readjustment , the Congress when convened spent thirteen months in par- tisan pursuits , failing to re- peal a single war statute which harassed business or to initiate a ...
... Congress into extraordinary session for imperative pur- poses of readjustment , the Congress when convened spent thirteen months in par- tisan pursuits , failing to re- peal a single war statute which harassed business or to initiate a ...
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... CONGRESS AND RECON- STRUCTION Despite the unconstitution- al and dictatorial course of the President and the parti- san obstruction of the Demo- cratic Congressional minor- ity , the Republican majority has enacted a program of ...
... CONGRESS AND RECON- STRUCTION Despite the unconstitution- al and dictatorial course of the President and the parti- san obstruction of the Demo- cratic Congressional minor- ity , the Republican majority has enacted a program of ...
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... Congress established by law a perma- nent Woman's Bureau in the Department of Labor ; we submitted to the country the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage , and furnish- ed twenty - nine of the thirty- five legislatures which ...
... Congress established by law a perma- nent Woman's Bureau in the Department of Labor ; we submitted to the country the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage , and furnish- ed twenty - nine of the thirty- five legislatures which ...
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Page 167 - Should any Member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13 or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League...
Page 170 - ... make provision to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League.
Page 166 - If the dispute between the parties is claimed by one of them, and is found by the Council, to arise out of a matter which by international law is solely within the domestic jurisdiction of that party, the Council shall so report, and shall make no recommendation as to its settlement.
Page 170 - Pacific islands, which, owing to the sparseness of their population or their small size, or their remoteness from the centers of civilization, or their geographical contiguity to the territory of the Mandatory, and other circumstances, can be best administered under the laws of the Mandatory as integral portions of its territory, subject to the safeguards above mentioned in the interests of the indigenous population.
Page 162 - Powers, together with Representatives of four other Members of the League. These four Members of the League shall be selected by the Assembly from time to time in its discretion.
Page 170 - ... authority, control, or administration to be exercised by the Mandatory shall, if not previously agreed upon by the Members of the League, be explicitly defined in each case by the Council.
Page 169 - League, have undertaken any obligations inconsistent with the terms of this Covenant, it shall be the duty of such Member to take immediate steps to procure its release from such obligations.
Page 166 - If a report by the Council is unanimously agreed" to by the members thereof other than the Representatives of one or more of the parties to the dispute, the- Members of the League agree that they will not go to war with any party to the dispute which complies with the recommendations of the report.
Page 82 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 172 - Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Members of the League whose representatives compose the Council and by a majority of the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Assembly. No such amendment shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Member of the League.