Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denying the petition of a group of local residents to keep the proposed building within the 35-foot zoning height limit, Master William H. Lewis, Jr. '26 found for the church on the two basic issues: that the restriction "would involve severe hardship to the respondent Church Corporation," and "that the 35-foot height restriction...does not apply to the Church...
...lawyers for the Church, working on a different aspect of the problem than is Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge, and Rugg, can establish a "hardship case," it may be able to by-pass the Cambridge ruling under a clause that allows exceptions in cases when other residents of the area would not be unduly inconvenienced...
...court appeal of its permit to build a 57-foot church with a 90-foot steeple at 145 Brattle St. The permit was obtained in spite of a general zoning law restricting the height of buildings in the area to 35 feet, presumably as an exception in a "hardship" case...
Twenty inches piled up in the Washington metropolitan area, as much as 40 inches in Pennsylvania, 20 inches in New York City suburbs, 35 inches in northern New Jersey. And wherever it fell, it brought fresh hardship to the land. Absenteeism dogged the factories. Ohrbach's department store in Manhattan looked like a morgue; other New York City stores reported 25% and 33% losses in business. "It definitely hurt unemployment," said a Labor Department expert. "It slowed up construction and farming." Wrote Washington Pundit David Lawrence: "People just don't go downtown shopping or begin to look...
Sometimes he seemed to be running against the U.S. He pointed with ill-concealed glee to figures of U.S. unemployed, crowed that "the people see that the future belongs to the socialist world, which does away with all hardship." He scoffed at the members of the U.S. Congress as "all representatives of large capital, no real workers or farmers." asserted (with a pre-election confidence possible only to dictatorships) that the new Supreme Soviet will include 44% factory or collective-farm workers. It will also include 26% women, he said, as against 3% women in the U.S. Congress. "There...