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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student counselors asked for a writ of mandamus to allow Dailey to vote in the elections next week, while City Solicitor Evarts, on behalf of the local commission, maintained that the third-year man was not intending to reside here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW STUDENT FIGHTS FOR SUFFRAGE RIGHT | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

Walter Edmund O'Hara, independent candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, asked the Board of Tax Appeals to allow him income-tax deductions of $373,112. Reason: He had wagered $4,084,797 at his own race track* in 1935 and 1936, failed to recover all he bet, considered the losses as incurred in the conduct of his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...sheds its skin, with bondholders forced to split the loss with stockholders and with railroads often left in just as bad a fix when the shedding was over. After the Federal Bankruptcy Act was amended in 1933 to give ICC power to supervise or rewrite reorganization plans and to allow roads to continue operating with their debts in a sort of suspended animation (Section 77), there came a complete cessation of reorganizations. For nearly five years, although nearly a third of the nation's trackage was in the courts, no road successfully reorganized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Realistic Relation | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Robert E. Lane '39, president of the Student Union, charged yesterday that a refusal to allow candidates for office to speak on Harvard property was a "mistaken policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ALLOWING POLITICAL FORUM HERE | 10/29/1938 | See Source »

...order to allow the new Inter-House debating plans to function without competition, the Varsity debates are all scheduled away from home this semester. Two series of eight debates each have been arranged for radio broadcasts, the first of which will be called the "Harvard Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Council Starts Trials for Varsity Nucleus | 10/13/1938 | See Source »

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