Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1933, Transcript readers had started to dig wells at $1,000 each to avoid paying the rates which Editor Baker denounced. The public school and a parochial school run by Editor Baker's ally, the Very Rev. James A. Walsh, did likewise. The Susquehanna fire department stopped using water company hydrants, pumped water up from the river. In nearby little Lanesboro, where W. E. Bennett is the village's largest taxpayer, the fire company shut off all its hydrants, proposed to depend entirely on help from the Susquehanna fire department...
First serial rights for North and South America went to United Feature Syndicate Inc., whose Syrian-Sheik General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid King Features, Bell Syndicate, NANA, NEA. United Features promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to enough U. S. newspapers to avoid, giving first publication to a magazine. Book rights went to Simon & Schuster. The Life of Our Lord will start to appear in about 300 U. S. newspapers on March 5, continue in 13 installments of a little more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would...
...State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling as I see the matter...
...tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate the political scene. The function of this group is to avoid extremes of class conflict and to assert community interest over class interests. Their program should consist of concessions to the other two classes, avoidance of any repressive measures, and the creation of an efficient governmental machine, which functioning well, will avoid any serious stalemates...
...avoid becoming mixed up in new speculative enterprises, the bill provided that no loans shall be made to businesses which were not in existence three years before December, 1929, so that the help can be extended to businesses affected by the depression. Also, loans would be made only to concerns that employ five or more persons...