Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and his followers have an even more radical plan which would allow no subordinate judge to set aside an Act of Congress and would allow the Supreme Court to set aside a law only once. If it should be passed by Congress a second time the Supreme Court would be powerless to annul it. This would have the effect of allowing Congress to override any part of the Constitution at will, if Congressmen could agree with themselves twice in succession. Clearly this plan would require a Constitutional Amendment and Mr. La Follette is planning...
...American shipping interests which are vigorously opposed to the measure because it would allow British ships to sell liquor coming and going from U. S. ports?a disadvantage to American ships, which cannot...
...stood where Woodrow Wilson stood within five weeks of the entry of America into the War. But he changed suddenly. I didn't. He was elected President for keeping us out of War. I was sentenced to ten years for trying to do the same thing. I refused to allow the United States Government to put a padlock on my lips. I had rather a thousand times be a man without a country than a man without a character...
...system is an innovation in the mechanics of grading and was inaugurated by Professor Lake in an attempt to obtain greater flexibility and to allow for the differences in methods of study. Professor Lake's theory was that men with scholastic ability would do better to choose the first examination mark only as they would not have to waste time by repeatedly reviewing for unimportant tests and so could get a broader outlook on the course. Less able students, he believed, should take the second choice as it was a surer means of obtaining a passing mark...
...spite of the break in the Cambridge chapter and the inactivity of the Brookline organization, Harvard Klansmen are still affiliated with local organizations. Speaking yesterday in the office of Telfair Minton, ex-head of the Cambridge chapter of the Klan, a self-styled Harvard graduate who refused to allow his name to be used stated that Monday night a meeting had been held in Boston, attended, on his statement by 300 "Harvard men". "Mayor Curley said he could stop it," he declared, "and the newspapers said nothing about it, but the meeting was held and it was the most successful...