Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot allow your comments upon the death of Senator McAdoo in your Feb. 10 issue to pass without a protest. I don't, as a rule, pay any attention to unfairness such as this, since a publication capable of such things usually sees fit to ignore any protests, but when a man who served his country and his State with outstanding ability, integrity and dignity is spoken of so cheaply ... no one who loved and admired him should pass it by in silence...
...they won't get anything." There was small hope that a respite proclaimed by Michigan's Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner would accomplish anything. Governor Van Wagoner last week invoked a State law, declared that both sides must observe a "cooling-off" period of 30 days, allow time to mediate...
...police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next it was reported that Germany demanded full adherence to the Axis...
...shown it how to fight!" But widespread Balkan reports had it that the Nazi diplomats were especially hard at work in Greece, persuading her that it was unnecessary to die. They wanted Greece, it was said, to make an "honorable" peace with Italy and allow Germany to consolidate a Salonika Front before the British could do so. Or else...
...cheapest place to buy insurance is at a savings bank. But only two States (New York and Massachusetts) allow banks to sell insurance and they limit the amount. The average annual net cost of an ordinary $1,000 straight life policy at savings banks in 1938 was $2.72. Other cost figures: New York Life $8.77, Aetna $10.32, Mutual Life of N. Y. $8.56, Travelers $10.29, Home Life...