Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year brought forth last week loud protest to President Hoover from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fifty-five black mothers with sons buried in France declared they would not go on the free pilgrimage unless the President ordered the War Department to abolish segregation and allow them to travel along with white mothers. Sample protest...
...China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would act as an antidote for'poison, would cure convulsions, the holy disease (epilepsy...
...motor car for every three persons, one divorce for every 3.3 marriages, $4,007 per capita wealth. Georgia has one car (or truck) to 7.7 persons, one divorce for every 14 marriages (many of Georgia's divorce cases go there from South Carolina, whose laws do not allow divorces), $1,306 per capita wealth...
...Hearst editor were to allow a news story to appear in his paper with a large initial letter, such as begins this sentence, swiftly would he be called to account for violation of orders...
Indicating Capone who looked fat, sleek, self-satisfied, State's Attorney Hawthorne told the court: "It's no crime to let a rattlesnake live but if you allow one to roam loose in your backyard where it may bite children, any court in the world will declare it a nuisance and authorize its abatement." Insisted Capone's counsel: "No matter how bad Capone may be, he has a perfect right to reside in this community as long as he is law-abiding." Judge Paul D. Barns took the padlock petition under advisement...