Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unconstitutional are groundless. Certain phases may be open to debate, but the law as whole conforms completely with the constitution. As a matter of fact the administration could go much farther then it already has and still be within the bounds of the constitution. The inter-state commerce laws allow much more power and even broader administration that the NRA has already attempted. No careful critic, who has taken the time to really study the act, can say that it is unconstitutional. Leading jurists all over the country, including Professor Thomas Reed Powell of the Harvard Law School, have upheld...
...dealer may allow a customer the full price listed in the guide. He must deduct a charge for handling and reconditioning, ranging from 5% to 15% depending upon the age of the car. The official guide price of a Ford cabriolet, 1930 model, in the New York area is $210. The mandatory deduction (15%) fixes the maximum allowance to a customer at $178.50. Other Guide prices in District No. 2 (five passenger sedans, 1930 models): Buick 30-57, $425; Chevrolet, $195; Chrysler 70, $300; Franklin, $700; Hudson Greater 8, $265; La Salle $575; Nash 480, $375; Packard...
...actively concerned with bolstering up the at all times shaky structure of good will between foreign and American students. I firmly believe that any future attempts to excite nationalistic and racial prejudices on the part of unauthorized and obviously uninformed persons should be definitely discouraged. . . We must guard against allowing the flotsam of political prejudice casting upon us the stigma that we allow ourselves to be msekly impressed by odoriferous brochures whose sole motivation is the more petty aspects of race antagonism and national chillblains. In this letter I can only appeal to the good sense of the majority...
...dangerous ground. Texas went Republican once. Suppose there's a close contest between Republicans and Democrats for the control of the Senate. Senator Connally, how'd you like to have your Texas Republican opponent contest your certificate of election on the grounds that Texans didn't allow niggers to vote...
...about his "illegitimate son," he wired a Buffalo supporter: "Whatever you do, tell the truth." When William Randolph Hearst wanted to add his name to a list of prominent citizens endorsing Hearst's proposed memorial to sailors lost in the Maine (1898), Cleveland telegraphed him: "I decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an advertising scheme for the New York Journal." One of his letters to Andrew Carnegie thanks him for a present of Scotch; another (written as a trustee of Princeton University) advises Carnegie to give a proposed benefaction...