Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interstate Commerce Commission by a vote of 6-to-5 refused to allow the Eastern roads to raise their basic passenger fares from 2? to 2½? a mile...
Quick as a flash the bishop thundered: "In this house I will allow no offensive remarks against the Führer!" Good Catholics in the congregation beamed admiration at this neat reference to Bachelor Hitler, and the Nazi flushed, sat down...
Joseph Lee, Jr., only member of the School Committee opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...
...each for the man in History and Government, for the one in History and Economics, and for the one in Government and Economics. Government Regulation of Industry is the most popular; International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them...
Until last week no other State had copied Massachusetts. That, however, was not so surprising as that no big old-line insurance company protested with much enthusiasm when New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman began last January to persuade his Legislature to allow New York's savings banks to issue life insurance. When the Massachusetts law was passed the companies were still slightly groggy from the 1906 investigation by the Charles Evans Hughes Committee and they said little. But whenever the subject came up in other States they said plenty. In New York, however, opposition came chiefly...