Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate, "Jezebel" is a play too deadly to allow any actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with the most perfunctory dusting-off, and recombines them in a fashion which the more debased minds might consider "modern." Undoubtedly he had hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when...
...Lindbergh kidnapping might have been solved if the federal secret service alone had taken charge of it," continued Mr. Loesch. "It was mishandled because of the professional pride of the New Jersey police. What America needs is a centralized police force as in France. That would allow one officer to pursue his criminal all over the country without consulting bothersome local authorities...
...Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred not inside but outside the Senate. Louisiana's blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more than $5,000,000, or to possess an estate of more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded almost Capitalistic compared to what young Senator Gerald P. Nye, as bleak a personality...
Refusing to allow the plea of guilty to be withdrawn, Judge Heinz sentenced Ronald Finney to from 31 to 635 years in jail. Like his father he announced he would appeal...
...part of the publicity director's time is of necessity taken up by routine contacts with the local newspapers. Despite the best efforts of Mr. Nichols, there has been a tendency since President Conant's inauguration for a certain friction to arise between the Administration and the press. To allow a return of the spirit of antagonism which prevailed in other days would be to forfeit an advantage won only with much labor and much tact...