Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President would haul [Mrs. Roosevelt] out of the place . . . There is hesitation in Congress about saying much because nobody wants to criticize the wife of the President. But this is public business and very important public business. ... It is incredible that President Roosevelt will allow this situation to continue much longer. It has become a public scandal. How can you have any kind of morale with a subordinate employe, who happens to be the wife of the President of the United States, flitting in and out between lecture engagements to toss a few more pets into nice jobs...
...constitution of the Phi Delta Kappa society, an organization of national importance in educational fields, does not allow "non-whites" to be members, however much they are qualified for this honor. Wishing to eliminate this racial distinction, the Harvard chapter of PDK has sought for a means by which to effect a change in this policy without actually taking steps contrary to the provisions of the society's national constitution...
Stating that the bitterness and hatred following this war would be too great to allow a just peace to be made, Professor Mather said that if the Allies wait for a five or ten year period after the war the foundations can be laid for a true family of nations, including all of the countries in the world, each with an equal access to raw materials and trade...
...students each. Meanwhile taxation's hand slipped more dollars from the professors' wallets. The Faculty falls neatly into the bracket whose income taxes have taken the biggest proportional leap. Nevertheless, in order to keep the expenses of an extended 12 weeks operation from being too high to allow anything but a very superficial offering of courses, they have decided to stretch their present incomes rather than restrict the scope of the new Summer School...
...meant discomforts, but never degradation and violence. The habit of an unfortunate prejudice must be met with compromise, but there is no rhyme nor reason in the present policy, which is pregnant with trouble and unnecessary bitterness. It is bad enough that the U. S. Military system should allow Joe Louis to contribute $47,100 to an organization which refuses him permission to serve under it, though it allows the Negro equal opportunity to die (as many are dying in the Philippines today), and denies him the opportunity to serve as he chooses...