Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, is now in danger in the Courts; that the Administration apparently has a courtproof substitute for AAA in the present Soil Conservation Law, which is adequate to deal with the Dust Bowl; that the biggest project which the Supreme Court will not allow the New Deal is another NRA, and six new judges could not make that constitutional for the Supreme Court was unanimous upon...
...Cecilia Colledge followed the same routine every day-six hours of skating lessons supplemented by dancing lessons, exercises, massages. For recreation she took lessons in cooking and English literature. Dr. Colledge at first discouraged the plan to make his daughter a skating celebrity, later acquiesced but stanchly refused to allow Cecilia's younger brother Maule to concentrate on skating...
...Biscay, though it was clear that her few creaky vessels surviving from Tsarist days could never stand up to those storm-lashed seas. Russia refused the assignment, "saved face" by demanding to patrol part of the Mediterranean though it was equally clear that Dictator Mussolini would never allow Russian ships to ply Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). This was all an elaborate diplomatic finesse, staged by Britain, who knew that Russia never wanted to participate in the blockade, wanted only to establish her right...
With regard to the Law School library and the new Littauer School, nobody knows how many of the law books would be wanted at some time by the Public Administrators. Conceivably almost all might. As far as the Law School is concerned it cannot well afford to allow its collection to be divided by parting with...
...evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty to her partner, Fay Cheyney rings the burglar alarm herself. The chance that her hostess will allow her to go to jail is removed next morning when Lord Kelton reveals that, in his anxiety to warn an innocent young girl about the people she will meet in polite society, he has written Fay an outspoken letter about the other guests at the duchess' house party. Fay's gesture...