Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TALLEST BUILDING, a $12 million, 34-story, 700-room luxury hotel, is planned by Conrad N. Hilton and British Millionaire Charles Clore. Towering 380 ft. over Hyde Park, 14 ft. higher than St. Paul's Cathedral, building would be taller than city's conservative codes now allow, but is expected to win official approval because of hotel shortage...
...Concludes Psychiatrist Arkle: "In the vast majority of cases the decision not to intervene was the correct one as judged by the law in this country . . . It seems likely that, to an unbalanced woman, the stimulus of a normal pregnancy is less deleterious than [abortion] . . . The psychiatrist must not allow the sociologists and geneticists to deceive him into exceeding his duty as a physician...
...stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities, it will be unable to handle the flood of restricken patients he is sure will turn up sooner or later...
...Right. When Weirton Steel Co., which had a company union, was struck, Weir personally polled his men, decided that outside union organizers were responsible, refused to allow a National Labor Relations Board election. National Recovery Act Administrator General Hugh Johnson threatened him with "jail in 24 hours." but Weir stood firm even under desperate White House coaxing. His hot court battle against a key NRA clause forbidding company unions ended in victory. A federal judge held that NRA applied only to interstate commerce and did not cover Weirton, an event widely held as the beginning...
...liberty of speech and action, cagey Edward Coke pointed out to the members the potentially fatal error of begging for something that was already theirs by right of law. "Take heed," he said, "that we lose not our liberties by petitioning for liberty," and: "If my sovereign will not allow me my inheritance, I must fly to Magna Carta...