Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing before the Reichsrat or Council of States, reactionary Minister of Interior Baron von Gayl made a bid for confidence by admitting, "I am a monarchist by tradition and conviction." Then he ringingly declared, "But I will allow no doubt that I shall be faithful to the oath of allegiance to the [Republican] Constitution that I swore before President von Hindenburg! Moreover Chancellor von Papen and the other ministers are in agreement with...
Upshot of the meeting was the adoption of a set of resolutions calling upon the Federal Government to: 1) amend the Reconstruction Finance Corp. act so as to allow indigent municipalities to borrow from that agency; 2) authorize a five-billion-dollar bond issue for public works (William Randolph Hearst's "Prosperity Loan"). For two years the Washington Government has insisted that local governments carry their own distress problems. Last week's meeting was local government's first organized appeal from this policy...
...survey by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music shows that colleges of the Middle and Far West exhibit a more encouraging attitude toward music than those of the East and South. Of 50 private institutions, 16 allow no entrance credits for music. (Among the 16: Harvard, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton. Yale.) Of 50 land-grant or State-supported institutions all but six will give entrance credits for music...
...than Blount will ever be, but she loves him for his pink & white good humor, his boyish manliness. When he is sent to Washington as Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days in Washington Blount fears...
...meaning of the first of these new rulings, as muddled in expression as could be, is this: the Senior Tutor and the House Master have complete authority; whereas formerly the House Master was unable to allow a single student and woman guest to enter a college room, now the Master or Tutor may give such permission. This is a distinct liberalization of the rules...