Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While quite properly such dailies as the New York Times and Herald Tribune are preserved to represent the moderate, reasoned influences at work in the nation today, intellectual or moral qualms should not allow it to neglect the most typical of the opposite forces...
Secretary Wallace was cooler but equally emphatic: "We are not going to allow the purchasing power of Southern planters to be wrecked; it means too much to the prosperity of the rest of the country." Then he announced as his latest slogan for farm control: "Plenty without waste." "I wish to announce my complete abhorrence of this tendency to provide an economy of scarcity," said the New Deal's stanchest advocate of crop reduction. "Agriculture did not start it and does not plan to continue it. We have been for a balanced production...
...pacifist opinions. Stoner refused to give him houseroom for more than an hour. But Jocelle went ahead and married him anyhow. Finally she got the old man to admit that he had forgotten what his wife looked like, and he gave in as gracefully as his old bones would allow...
...have shirked to such an extent that the complaints of the nation's 160,000,000 inhabitants sounded above the Kremlin's walls. Last week Dictator Joseph Stalin decided that, to get proper work from doctors, dentists, et al., he must raise wages by about 60% and allow physicians all the privileges of engineers and industrial technicians. Last year U. S. S. R.'s health bill was $2,200,000,000. Next year it will be nearly...
...Indeed only once is she to be found in office hours and then in the act of being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls...