Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local newshawks. Promptly the news was flashed from coast to coast: Senator Norris would not run again in 1936. Franklin Roosevelt, questioned about the news in press conference, genially expanded. Said he: "If I were a citizen of Nebraska, regardless of what party I belonged to, I would not allow George Norris to retire from the United States Senate, whether he wanted to or not, for the very good reason that I feel he is necessary not only to Nebraska but to the United States as long as he lives." Senator Norris, on reaching Los Angeles, denied the Utah remarks...
...high but very courteous good humor, he bore the recriminations which were hurled at him and his treaty. For although the treaty does not go into force until Jan. 1, although its terms were kept secret for 48 hours (to allow for their transmission and simultaneous release in Ottawa) the howls of aggrieved lobbyists had already begun a serenade in Washington. Whether there had been some leak or whether they knew that tariff cuts were due them, the industries affected began to squeal. Lumbermen protested that they were being "sold down the river," dairymen that it would be a crime...
...hundred-fifty more names have swelled the list of students petitioning the University to allow first year men to eat a few meals a week in the Houses without having to pay for extra meals. Yearlings and other undergraduates have joined to bring the total number of names to more than...
With a carefully selected cast of very Gallic variety artists, the "Continental Varieties of 1936" opened at the Shubert Tuesday for a week's run thus allowing its star, Lucienne Boyer, to take up her Boston activities where she left off last season. Although the show is constructed mainly as a buildup for Miss Boyer's dramatic renditions of striking French ballads, it has its merits of its own, which the reviewer found as diverting as the talents of la belle diseuse. The performers are few in number and diverse in talent, but they all possess a great deal...
Some 300 Freshmen have petitioned the University to allow them to eat "a certain number of meals in the Houses every week with upperclass friends without further charge...