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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They realize that their choice must allow for unusual activity, which rules out much of the gossamer lingerie to which many of them have been accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vest and Pantie | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...York City's Hitler-hating Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia broadcast that he would allow no protest rallies before foreign consulates, urged against provocations at public meetings, warned: "The battles will be fought on the fields of Europe. They cannot be fought or settled in the streets of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...freezing the old-age payroll tax at 1% through 1942; 2) to limit the unemployment insurance payroll tax to the first $3,000 of earnings cutting off about $65,000,000 in taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members to the rolls; 5) to obligate the Government to match States dollar for dollar up to $20 per month for old-age pensions; 6) sharply to limit the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...London, England, the British Government ordered 1,400,000 babies' gas masks, designed to allow thumbsucking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...pointed out that Italy was not living up to her sworn obligations. When Adolf Hitler came to power the South Tyrolese hoped that this exponent of "One People, One State, One Leader" would soon look into their case. The Führer soon showed, however, that he would not allow the plight of a mere 200,000 Germans to interfere with the destiny of some 80,000,000. At Rome, in May 1938, the Führer declared before Il Duce that the present Italian-German frontiers were inviolable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hard Way | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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