Debt Ceiling Increase, Hearings Before ... 85-2, on H.R. 9955 ..., January 27, 28, February 4 and 7, 1958

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Page 97 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance...
Page 422 - Bank shall be to aid in financing and to facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States or any of its Territories or insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof.
Page 419 - The CHAIRMAN. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the situation that doesn't look to be very good.
Page 69 - The bills are subject to estate, inheritance, gift or other excise taxes, whether Federal or State, but are exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed on the principal or interest thereof by any St.ite, or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority.
Page 97 - ... exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even...
Page 251 - Council"), consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, as Chairman, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, the President of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and during such period as the Foreign Operations Administration shall continue to exist, the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration.
Page 91 - Section 5 (ii) of this Article, payment may be made at the option of the member either in gold, in United States dollars or in the currency required to discharge the obligations of the Bank for the purpose for which the call is made...
Page 69 - Army may waive, withdraw, or amend at any time or from time to time any or all of the provisions of this section.
Page 98 - Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures...
Page 98 - ... bring such piece in — in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen, and Franklin, and Roger, and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck. It should not be overlooked that by the Nebraska Bill the people of a state as well as Territory were to be left " perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution.

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