Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated a bill by Nebraska's Norris to create a Tennessee Valley Authority to operate Muscle Shoals. ¶ Passed a bill by Ohio's Bulkley to allow national banks to lend more than 10% of their resources to one borrower, as a means of paying off depositors in closed banks...
...afford to pay garage rent. At present the only parking space available for students of the University is Jarvis Street, which runs behind the Law School, connecting Massachusetts Avenue and Oxford Street. There are accommodations for not over 100 cars there and University officials will not allow overnight parking. The Business School has a parking place suitable for between two and three hundred cars, but it is restricted to the cars of the students and faculty of the school only. The various small parking places such as the one behind Widener and beside Lawrence Hall are restricted to faculty...
There is no question but that the employment of abridgements is subversive to the aims of the higher education; the policy of Harvard, however, and of other large universities, has been to allow the undergraduate to decide for himself just how much he will put into his work, so long as his grades are reasonably good. Dean Hanford's argument against the methods of the Bureau is, in this case, a well-founded one, from a theoretical standpoint; from the point of view of practice, it is useless, for even if the court in this particular instance should be swayed...
...Scottsboro (Ala.) Negro on the mortal charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy, you would...
...Liberalization of the Federal Reserve Act to allow admission to the Reserve of State commercial and mutual savings banks, (Based on last week's figures 84% of Federal Reserve member banks but only 67% of State banks had reopened on an unrestricted basis...