Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...
...used to pay a $25,000,000 two-year note issue due July 16, and $7,000,000 in bank loans. Boston Edison last made memorable headlines in September 1929 when its stock dropped 70 points on news that the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities had refused to allow a 4-to-1 stock split. Selling quickly spread to other public utility shares, helped precipitate the Crash. ¶Nine months after Manhattan's Hardman National Bank & Trust Co. closed last year, the Federal Government brought suit to compel the 19 members of the New York Clearing House Association...
...accomplish this he has started a thorough reorganization of the faculty. With this importation of new blood, he has conducted a survey of their working hours to allow them more time for research. The difficulty lies in finding the proper equilibrium between teaching and research. During the next few years, the tutorial system which is now ready to emerge form the experimental stage must stand severe testing to put it into its proper relation with course work. It would seem likely that tutorial work will soon be restricted chiefly to men of more then average ability and that there...
Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...
Warner issued the following statement last night: "Harvard, in its position as one of the leading colleges of the country, should not allow itself to be branded with the stigma of standing by while war comes closer. The Committee means to do whatever can be done to combat...