Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...
...mind to this revolutionary step several years ago, when he learned that Repton boys, to escape townee snickers when they left the school grounds, enveloped themselves in mackintoshes even on the hottest days. Repton's new uniform, still to be designed, will be "made up so as to allow greater freedom and less to divide the Reptonian from his fellow countrymen...
...stand for peace and for preventing the further development of aggression," said the Foreign Commissar. "But we must remember Comrade Stalin's precept: 'to be cautious and not to allow our country to be drawn into conflicts by warmongers who are accustomed to have others pull chestnuts out of the fire for them...
...Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could feel relieved that Congressional items like further WPA investigation and revision of the Wagner Act seemed likely to die of overweight...
...done in a bitterly poignant manner, makes even sharper the commentary on American democracy that this song conveys. Why does a colored band get one third as much money as a while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang on within then? We may be equalitarian, but Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests...