Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of the factory system in the nineteenth century. By failing to pay a living wage to the heads of families the Passaic mills had drawn women and minors to them. A law designed to remedy this had been suspended. And it was the refusal of the manufacturers to allow their employes to organize that precipitated the walkout...
...Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic has been sleeping over ten years. You can't expect much from somnambulists. With one notable exception, LaGuardia, these committeemen are so dry they will not allow anyone to 'drink in' the morning air, and even prohibit a golf bag to have a 'stick...
...Whether it be Cabinet officers, a United States Senator, a Methodist Bishop, a Baptist evangelist, a Presbyterian doctor of divinity, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Pope of Rome, I do not propose to allow any man to declare, without my indignant protest, that the stalwart, God-fearing men and praying handmaidens of God who fought for prohibition on their knees as well as at the ballot box are given to the habitual practice of misrepresentation...
...Politics, and Religion" is the title of Dean Pound's lecture at the Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Dean Pound's knowledge of the practical side of his law is at least good enough for the authorities of Boston to allow him to delve into the deepest archives of their criminal records, and any vagabond who has ever wandered into Langdell Hall to hear him on Jurisprudence will bear with him on religion tomorrow...
Under these conditions the students in their desire for knowledge and fight for existence took matters into their own hands. Being anxious to continue their studies they looked for help, not only through work which would still allow them to do so, as was the case of many industrious students before the war, but also they sought assistance from a general change of system, that is to say by cooperation between students with the ultimate aim of welding as large a number of students as possible into a self-supporting unit with the most speed...