Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted resolutions to investigate flour, bread and sugar prices, to allow its campaign expenditures investigating committee $50,000 to continue its inquiry...
...social character, Senator Borah divides his time between his Connecticut Avenue apartment and his dark, ground-floor offices on The Hill. He rarely attends parties or theatres. As Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he refuses to allow himself to be lionized by the diplomatic corps. He is suspicious of Washington Society. Once he thundered: "It is far simpler to agree than disagree in Washington. If there is an atmosphere in God's world that weakens a man's backbone it is the atmosphere of Washington. The diluting process is constant and drastic." An explanation by Mrs. Borah...
...lectures continues to present an inadequacy. Formerly, regular lectures were given, but it was found that this system was not successful. Accordingly the more efficient section-meeting was substituted, with a reservation for the use of the lecture at any time. The purpose of this reservation, which was to allow a change in cases where it seemed best, has not been realized...
...fundamental difficulties to be reached. This it seems clear, can only be done by a revision of the amendment... by so redrawing the amendment as, on the one hand, to preserve federal control and a check upon bringing back of the saloon anywhere, and, on the other hand, to allow of an effective control adapted to local conditions in places where, as things are, at least, it is futile to seek a nationally enforced general abstinence...
...action of the Cambridge City Council in petitioning Harvard, Radcliffe, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to allow Cambridge students free tuition at these institutions seems to have little real justification. The ostensible reason set forth by the Council is that much of the property and land of these colleges is tax free and that the financial obligations thereby incurred toward the city of Cambridge should be fulfilled by giving a free education to Cambridge children. The existence of this obligation is at least problematical, and even if Cambridge is being deprived of much needed funds the University can hardly...