Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported from Moscow that Bolshevik workmen had almost finished whitewashing the capital, i. e. giving it a coat of white paint. Said The New York Times: "The making white of the outside will not allow the Western World to condone the atrocities that have been committed behind them nor to see these whitewashed walls as other than whited sepulchres holding memories of dead men's bones...
...hands of the French, and every bit of capital which the weak German government can tax out of its people must be handed over to France for reparations. The crux of the whole matter is the impossible size of the reparations bill. France has refused to allow this vital matter to be touched because thirty-three billions of dollars means to her security, her only security. Little of real value can be done until this bill is radically scaled down and Germany given a moratorium for recuperation...
...public has rights, to be sure, but a right involves a duty. I say that it is the public's duty not to allow men to be overworked under bad conditions, and underpaid, so that they cannot maintain decent living standards." Mr. Morrison pointed to the fact that even in periods of the most extreme unemployment, nothing has ever been done to alleviate the situation. He maintained that labor;s only recourse is in strengthening union organizations for more effective collective bargaining, and in political activity to secure remedial legislation...
...money raised in this campaign is to serve two purposes. First, the greater part is to be used in research work to gather material to allow the Business School to follow the "case method." Material for these cases is collected with the consent of the corporations from which it is drawn and is worked up into problem books. These publications have been adopted by 106 colleges and universities in this country, 'showing that the school is producing valuable business instruction...
...with the pastor of the Wesley Memorial Church, Atlanta, for the use of his church's auditorium for Miss Farrar's concert on Nov. 30. Shortly before the concert one Dr. W. H. Laprade, presiding officer of the Methodist Church of that district, removed the pastor and refused to allow Miss Farrar to sing in the church auditorium. He gave as his reason, Miss Farrar's sensational interpretation of the title role in Zaza* which she sang when the Metropolitan Opera Company visited Atlanta in 1920. Nothing could persuade Dr. Laprade to change his mind...