Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spontaneous student concern was manifested when it was learned that Robin Feild had not been reappointed. Students recognized this as a vital issue immediately concerning them, which necessitates action. The students hope that the Fine Arts Department will continue to allow a diversified approach to the study of Fine Arts. We also hope that the Fine Arts Department will live up to our expectations by reconsidering its action concerning the non-reappointment of Mr. Feild...
...concession was announced by the State Department which said that Britain, by inference, had granted permission for American airliners to land in England, a right which had been denied heretofore because the United States refuses to allow British around-the-world planes to land at Hawaii...
...year, that Germany has 6,500 new planes, 3,000 usable old ones, and can build 1,200 a month. Explaining that French resistance to Mussolini held the chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much of his information came from Hero Charles Lindbergh (TIME...
...asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would, of course, anger Dictator Mussolini (see p. 18), would be just the ingredient needed to produce a first-class European crisis...
...immediate benefit, however, can be determined to a certain extent. The fifty-five underprivileged graduates of Greater Boston High Schools want one of three things: (1) to prepare themselves for college if finances ever allow them to attend; (2) to study those subjects beneficial to their business or daily occupation; (3) to gain "general culture" in their personal interests. If they are to achieve these ends they must have in whatever way possible the advantages of regular undergraduates. Through personal meetings with their tutors once or twice a week, they can accomplish as much or little as their ambition demands...