Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generated so much heat that finally last week neutral sub-chieftain Abu Khalid arranged a meeting near Jaffa. At the unexpected approach of British troops this meeting broke up, but at a second conference, in the parched hills of northern Palestine, matters were settled amicably. Each chief agreed to allow the other to retain the "Commander-in-Chief" title, but only over separate districts. Neither is now to give the other orders, although "requests for cooperation" will be heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep and brewed a kettle...
Jerome Frank's theory is another approach to the problem: not to prevent saving but to prevent it from being translated into fixed charges. Emphasizing that his proposal was not officially inspired, he pointed out its major difficulty: the necessity of changes in State laws to allow banks and insurance companies to invest in stocks. Preferred securities he maintained would be just as sound investments for banks if they carried voting control when dividends were in arrears, thereby giving preferred stockholders the right to force a change in management...
Based on a combination of the Harvard and Oxford Union debating systems, the competition will allow for house teams composed of three members, giving two constructive and a rebuttal speech at each debate. Decisions, the House Chairman agreed, should rest with three judges, preferably members of the faculty...
...will be represented in the interhouse league, and these will be the seven houses, Dudley Hall Commuters' Center, and the other unit will be made up of the remaining outlying dormitories. These divisions of the college will vie with one another in a thirty-six debate schedule which will allow one meeting between each group...
...challenge presented to you by the Williams of 1938 is whether you can live up to these educational opportunities. It is indeed a grave challenge, for you must not allow the many foibles of college life to prevent you from concentrating on your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want...