Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been extending to our national life the old principle of the local community, the principle that no individual man, woman or child has a right to do things that hurt their neighbors. . . . In the old days it was unfair to our neighbors to allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody...
...depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked by the Milk Board's refusal to allow them a better price, last week canceled their deliveries, went on strike. They demanded the abolition of the classified price system, a blanket rate of 45% of the retail price or approximately 5? a quart. The strikers dumped their milk into troughs and ditches, set up pickets to prevent...
...National Industrial Recovery Act fails, something more radical will have to be tried. ... It is the rainbow of hope against the black clouds of chaos and if these clouds gather once more, no other democratic recourse will be open to us but the calling of a Constitutional Convention to allow economic planning on a more effective national scale...
...same events are scheduled for both the men and women rowing enthusiasts; including wherries, broad comps, narrow comps, and singles. Although any one contestant can race in only one class, a special feature in the men's single race will allow the winner of the novice race to enter the Senior Singles. Medals will be awarded to the first and second placers in every final heat, and the races will be so organized that adequate rest is provided between the preliminary heats and the finals, although the events will be run off every ten minutes...
...come over to my ranch I will make him a gift of a bunch of pigs that he can show at the coming autumn fairs, or even the Century of Progress, and this will produce in him a mental shift and give him so much care he will never allow that unruly tongue of his to betray ignorance. This may be freakish, but it goes. JENNIE MINERVA MILLS CONRAD Conrad Ranch Conrad...