Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support of the princes...
Last year another Big Red, Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, denounced "the fact that right now 450,000 carloads of manufactured goods are awaiting shipment in our warehouses for lack of rail transport!" Last week Pravda, careful not to blame anybody, grumbled: "The country can no longer allow backwardness in this vital link in our economic chain. The interests of Socialist construction, the interests of production and, last but not least, the interests of national defense demand a solution of the railroad problem this year and not later...
...necessarily must report because of the news interest involved. It shall be the policy of the operations department not to conflict in any way when newspapermen require photographs. . . . [The operations man] should be careful to give facts and not conclusions of the accident. In any event, he should not . . . allow himself to be quoted in any statement concerning the accident. Newspapers will cooperate in this regard if the operations man explains that he will be glad to give information concerning the accident but the reporter must protect and not quote him directly. Only authorized person to give out a statement...
...questionnaire circulated in one of the houses asked whether the students wanted a new ruling which would allow house members to borrow books for reading in their rooms. Despite the affirmative wording of the questionnaire, almost 50 per cent answered in the negative, because the realized that under such an all-inclusive plan the House library would become another Widener. Nevertheless, the response, which may be assumed to be representative, clearly demonstrates that there is a strong feeling in the houses that at least some books should be lent out for room...