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85TH CONGRESS abbreviations alphabet amendment Army avoirdupois bill H.R. bird capitalized caps and small CFA Franc CFAF clad u.m. colored u.m. comma Committee compound Congress consonant consonantal unit copy Corps Court dash digraph diphthong District of Columbia Division eyed u.m. faced u.m. Federal figure column fish flush footnotes foreign words Government guide meridian Hawaiian Organic Act headed u.m. hearted House of Representatives hyphen indented indicate insert italic joint resolution Latin alphabet leaderwork letters looking u.m. lowercase maker minded u.m. noun Office paragraph parentheses Patent period picas plural pounds preceding President printed pronounced proof punctuation reading column referred Rept Republic rest one word rule Senate Service shaped u.m. short tons small caps Smith space SPEAKER spelled stone stressed style syllabification syllable symbols tail tion U.S. Congress U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court Union vote vowel Washington
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Page 165 - Programme Unesco United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund...
Page 366 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
Page 321 - Act, and for other purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House and the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report : The Senate amendment struck out all of the House bill after the enacting clause and inserted a substitute text.
Page 372 - Act of 1948, as amended, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate...
Page 342 - XI, together with the views of the minority, shall be delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper calendar under the direction of the Speaker, in accordance with the foregoing clause, and the titles or subject thereof shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the Record...
Page 320 - Amendment numbered 2: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 2, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the...
Page 320 - An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges, approved June 29, 1935, (Public— No.
Page 333 - An act to provide a government for the, Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900.
Page 365 - Union, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and with the recommendation that the bill as amended do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of S.
Page 304 - The question was taken; and (twothirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.