Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to allow the progress that has been made thus far to be nullified by interests which are opposing me on any such silly pretext as that my administration has been irascible and intemperate...
...laws, to allow some price-fixing, some limitation of production. Mr. Richberg, a lifelong advocate of fair and free competition, tends to look askance on such measures. If his views are followed in reorganizing NRA, price-fixing may go by the boards, along with limitation of production, and suspension of the anti-trust laws. That, at least, is the direction of his inclinations and those of his partner, Madam Secretary Perkins...
...inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull...
...interesting to note in this same article that "the Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strike-breaking." This fear on the part of the Government, which caused it to allow this immense herd to suffer after being corralled by its officials, may explain in part why our Government is being defied and its Federal arbitrators made monkeys of by A. F. of L. unions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kohler and other cities. This noisy organization apparently has the present Administration on the run, casting aside in their...
...Would the Labor Party allow St. Paul's to collapse or sell the pictures in the National Gallery," he asked, "merely because, until now, the majority may not see anything in them...