Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the bills rushed through last week (see below), the session's chief accomplishments were the passage of a quasi-Neutrality Act, extending and amending the temporary acts of 1935 and 1936; an act to allow Supreme Court Justices to retire on full pay; a modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work...
...considerable improvement on printing from a typewritten sheet was made possible last week by International Business Machines Corp. I. B. M. has a new electric typewriter which uses 12-point Roman type and whose carriage automatically advances different spacings to allow each letter in the alphabet the width required by good type design. (Each typewriter letter is the same width.) Thus, capital W gets eight units of space, lower-case i or I only two units. The machine uses a 300-ft. paper ribbon, which runs through only once, thus keeping the copy uniform in blackness. There is also...
...Brightness Itself." In Nanking last week the Dictator of China, wise and watchful Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, manifestoed: "China is determined to fight to the last man! . . . The policy of our Government has been consistent from beginning to end; namely, that we cannot surrender any territory or allow our sovereignty to be encroached upon. I call upon the Nation to mobilize our total resources and struggle hand-in-hand to save China...
...That is true," admitted Lord Dufferin & Ava, then continued his ringing address as a budding statesman by keynoting: "His Majesty's Government are determined not to allow calm proposals to be blocked by threats!" Without a vote in the Lords the bill then went to the Commons...
This week Chinese Dictator Chiang at last made his first public statement on the current Sino-Japanese crisis. "Japan will have to decide whether these clashes will result in a major war between Japan and China. If we allow one inch more of our territory to be lost we will be guilty of an unpardonable offense against our race...