He said Britain also proposed that the international truce commission should be reconvened, sent to New Delhi and from there to Laos to verify the cease-fire.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

In 1889, an International Marine Conference was held at Washington, D. C., and it was proposed to establish a " permanent international commission.

In September, Tycho secured him a commission as a collaborator on the new project he had proposed to the emperor: the Rudolphine Tables that should replace the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold.

In its report, the commission proposed that Olympic Games be held every four years and that the program for the Games be one of modern rather than ancient sports.

On March 28, 1794, the president of the commission which developed the metric system, Joseph Louis Lagrange, proposed in a report to the commission the names déci-jour and centi-jour ( deciday and centiday in English ).

The commission proposed making the standard hour the base unit of metric time, but the proposal did not gain acceptance and was eventually abandoned.

A commission chaired by Johan Thorbecke was appointed to draft the new proposed constitution, which was finished on 19 June.

While the airbase currently enjoys wide support from Virginia Beach at large, the Pentagon Base Realignment and Closure commission has proposed closure of Oceana within the next decade.

The European Union's executive commission proposed a European Union – wide anti-racism law in 2001, which included an offense of genocide denial, but European Union states failed to agree on the balance between prohibiting racism and freedom of expression.

On August 1, 1837, King William I appointed a royal commission of inquiry ; the scheme proposed by the commission received the sanction of the Dutch Parliament's Second Chamber in March 1839, and in the following May the work was begun.

The suit charged that the highway commission had refused to hold any public hearings and that construction of the freeway on the proposed route would require cutting many trees and stripping the land, which would cause a great interference with the wildlife of the area, and, in addition would created excessive noise and air pollution which would not be necessary if the freeway took another route.

In response to the petition, the council set up a commission that proposed a city synod.

Scotsman William Hastie proposed clearing the space around all sides of the church and all the way down to the Moskva River: the official commission led by Fyodor Rostopchin and Mikhail Tsitsianov agreed to clear only the space between the church and Lobnoye Mesto.

The commission proposed the creation of a national system of secondary education by restructuring the endowments of these schools for modern purposes.

Although he rejected this scholarship, Martin Mayer wrote in 1997 that since the late 1980s it had been “ clear ” that continuing the Glass-Steagall prohibitions was only “ permitting a handful of large investment houses and hedge funds to charge monopoly rents for their services without protecting corporate America, investors, or the banks .” Hyman Minsky, who disputed the benefits of “ universal banking ,” wrote in 1995 testimony prepared for Congress that “ repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in itself, would neither benefit nor harm the economy of the United States to any significant extent .” In 1974 Mayer had quoted Minsky as stating a 1971 presidential commission ( the “ Hunt Commission ”) was repeating the errors of history when it proposed relaxing Glass-Steagall and other legislation from the 1930s.

Although Michel Barnier, European Union internal market Commissioner, proposed limits on capital requirements for banks that could have hindered the UK ringfencing proposal and indicated support for the French and German position against breaking up banking groups, in November 2011 he announced an “ expert commission ” would “ study the mandatory separation of risky investment banking activities from traditional retail lenders .”

In a government commission proposed a " Soviet revolutionary calendar " containing twelve 30-day months plus five national holidays that were not part of any month, but it was rejected because it would differ from the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of Europe.

Kaplický took the firm name and some staff to the Czech republic, and Levete would take a proposed new headquarters for News Corporation in east London and a commission for a hotel and retail complex in Bangkok, Thailand, along with most of the staff — between 35 and 45 people.

The commission proposed that funding come from the United States Congress and that a new organization, the Board for International Broadcasting ( BIB ) would simultaneously link the stations and the federal government, and serve as an editorial buffer between them.

In 1943 more than 500 of Sweden's municipalities had fewer than 500 inhabitants, and the 1943 års kommunindelningskommitté (" Municipal subdivision commission of 1943 ") proposed that the number of rural municipalities should be drastically reduced.

The President also reassured many by his decisiveness in ordering the establishment of a military commission on May 1, 1865 to try the surviving conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination.

Many treaties ( such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade before the establishment of the World Trade Organization ) do not establish an organization and instead rely purely on the parties for their administration becoming legally recognized as an ad hoc commission.

Harding also advocated the establishment of an international commission to improve race relations between whites and blacks ; however, strong political opposition by the Southern Democratic bloc prevented the commission.

An embargo on his work at the end of the war by the establishment led to Ralph Vaughan Williams refusing a BBC commission in protest, even though he did not share Bush's political views.

Its purpose was ostensibly to oversee the territory and the establishment of new settlements and maintain a detailed recording of all land and civic transactions in the area ; but in fact Lord Baltimore intended to use the commission to reinforce Maryland's claim to the area and to monitor any encroachments by the Virginians.

Fears of possible Soviet or Cuban foreign involvement in the assassination necessitated the establishment of a bipartisan commission that, in turn, sought to depoliticize Oswald's role by downplaying his Communist affiliations.

This law provided for the establishment of a commission of 10 members, empowered to purchase land in Italy for distribution amongst the poorer citizens and for the foundation of colonies.

They agreed to an in-place cease-fire to begin on 28 January 1973, complete withdrawal of U. S. forces within 60 days, the concurrent phased release of U. S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam, and establishment of an international control commission to handle disagreements among the signatories.

In 1956, he set up New Bridge, an organisation which aims to help prisoners stay in touch with society and integrate back into it. He organized many debates on prison reform in the House of Lords from the 1950s onwards and in 1963 chaired the commission whose report led to the establishment of the parole system in 1965.

On 9 March 2011: The House of Lords " heard calls for the establishment of a royal commission to examine decriminalising drug use.

During the government of António Teixeira de Sousa, in July 1910, that the government created a commission to study the establishment of an Instituto de Trabalho Nacional (" Institute of National Work "), that had three socialists and included Azedo Gneco.

The Irish perspective was that this was intended to allow largely nationalist areas of Northern Ireland to join the Free State, and shortly after the establishment of the Free State this commission came into being.

Upon his return to Canada in 1946, Massey headed a royal commission on the arts between 1949 and 1951, which resulted in the Massey Report and subsequently the establishment of the National Library of Canada and the Canada Council of the Arts, amongst other grant-giving agencies.

It was on his motion that, on 25 February, the government undertook " to guarantee the existence of the workmen by work "; and though his demand for the establishment of a ministry of labour was refused — as beyond the competence of a provisional government — he was appointed to preside over the government labour commission ( Commission du Gouvernement pour les travailleurs ) established at the Palace Luxembourg to inquire into and report on the labour question.

After " weeks of negotiation with ... emissaries, ... a complex multi-stepped plan " was " hammered out " that included the establishment of an international commission to study America's role in Iran.

This was accompanied by the establishment of the Coolidge Foundation to organize concerts in that auditorium and to commission new chamber music from both European and American composers, as it continues to do today.

One of the initiatives of the commission is the establishment of an interactive website that will allow not only health directors, but the AMEC membership at-large to access health information, complete reports, request assistance.

As a member of the army commission, reporter of the budgets of the ministries of the interior and of agriculture he brought forward bills for the better treatment of the insane, for the establishment of a colonial ministry, for the taxation of alcohol, and for the reparation of judicial errors.

* The establishment of a presidential election commission that would enjoy complete independence to supervise the election process.

Independent of the initiatives of Hodson and the Legislative Assembly, the Central African Council's commission on higher education, led by Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders ( after whom another residence is now named ) recommended the establishment of a university college to serve Rhodesia and Nyasaland, with its first preference being to integrate with the Southern Rhodesian initiative.

In 1986, the two took opposing sides in cabinet debates about the establishment of a royal commission on social policy, which Lange saw as an intellectual counterweight to Treasury.

Wilson's reform-minded term as Governor saw the establishment of Presidential primary elections, introduced workers ' compensation, and brought about passage of the Walsh Act which provided for a non-partisan commission form of municipal government that was greatly reflective of his academic writings in Congressional Government.

The establishment of this commission represented and promoted the cultural and linguistic composition of Canada for the first time.