Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present a noncontentious budget and get it through quickly and ask the House of Commons -which is not a practice I ever propose to repeat - to curtail its discussions on supply by a great deal and give up one of its essential functions in order to allow the election to take place. Therefore. I have long since come to the conclusion that you must rule out the spring and summer months because of financial business. You must rule out August and September because of the holidays. You are left autumn, but in no circumstances must you run into any interference...
...Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. . . . Germany's political policy within or without its borders has no bearing on the subject. [The American Olympic Committee] will never allow our athletes to be made martyrs to a cause not their own. . . ." He said he planned a 16-page booklet containing "enough information to blow those who figure that Americans should not compete in the Berlin Olympic Games right out of the water...
...sent in a $3,239,828 bill for services and expenses. Paramount was the debtor, as the law provides that "a trust estate must bear the expenses of its administration." But Judge Coxe had the authority to deny or to reduce claims, since Section 77b provides: "The judge . . . may allow a reasonable compensation for services rendered . . . and expenses incurred." Last week Judge Coxe granted payments of $1,026,711, said "nothing doing" to two-thirds of the claims advanced...
Story began with a tantalizing little dispatch from Honolulu fortnight ago to the effect that J. Walter Doyle, Collector of Customs of that port, had returned from a trip to Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands in mid-Pacific, had refused to allow his subordinates to inspect his luggage on the ground that he had not been outside the U. S. This gesture was supposed to clinch U. S. title to three tiny specks of land spang on the equator and almost midway between the Hawaiian Islands, Australia and New Zealand...
With Canadian bookstores and cinema houses plugging his royalties furiously last week, canny John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, prolonged the money-making suspense of his arrival as Governor General by postponing it to Nov. 2. The given reason for this delay was to allow time for William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal victor in Canada's general election (TIME, Oct. 21), to be sworn in as Premier before the distinguished author arrives to occupy viceregal Rideau Hall...