Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dampening the ardor of a large group of philanthropic workers, President Roosevelt chopped down their sweeping social security program to one subject for early enactment, unemployment insurance. Refusing to allow the national government to assume the entire burden of such a plan, he insisted that this "part of social insurance should be a cooperative federal-state undertaking...
...still in Bremer County, still a bachelor. At 70, he is stooped from the explosion which crippled and palsied him. Nowadays he does odd jobs, chiefly picking beans for a local cannery. This year his total earnings were $31, but he still dresses as neatly as his income will allow and the county thinks highly of the beetle-browed, mustachioed...
...conjunction with the report of the temporary suspension of relations with Holy Cross came the information that the Faculty, at its last meeting, voted to allow the football team to leave Cambridge for two games each year during the years 1936 and 1940. According to present rules the team is allowed only one game away from home each year, but will play both Princeton and Army away next season...
...before a Boston court today. It will be decided upon purely legal grounds in reference to patent laws but for the student and professional man it has ethical and scientific ramifications with which the courts will be unconcerned. To quote from a scientific journal the question involved: "Shall universities allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under university auspices on tax-free premises?" is a pertinent problem for institutions of higher learning and research...
...York the battle was more bitter. Posing for fashion shows, testimonials, photographs is a not inconsiderable source of income for debutantes and divorced duchesses. Amateurs and professionals alike are paid $10 an hour for posing, more when they allow their names to be used in advertisements. Since the debutantes' names are chiefly in demand they almost always get more. They are also allowed to buy the dresses they pose in at cost, a saving of at least 50%. For those too sensitive to accept cash, there are always handsome presents...