Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced his first issue with Congress over Relief. In asking for a Relief appropriation far larger than expected ($875,000,000 instead of some $600,000,000), he took pains to remind the Congress that this sum was only to keep WPA going as is until June 30. Let Congress appropriate that, he urged, and apply any alterations it may want to make in Relief procedure, to fiscal 1940. Said he: "The hasty adoption of legislative provisions, to be immediately effective, which radically change the present method . . . would greatly complicate the administration of the program in the coming months...
...outskirts of Milwaukee in his automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...
...hours later Governor Olson collapsed before a microphone at the State Fair Grounds, was hospitalized for nervous exhaustion. But Tom Mooney would not let his own impaired health stand in the way of the greatest day of his life. From Sacramento next day he motored to San Francisco at the head of a caravan of 20 cars that swelled to 200. In a parade San Francisco labor had arranged for him, Tom Mooney refused to ride in an automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges...
...presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
Eager Yardlings rushed to sign the petition with cries of "Let me at it," "Boy!" In a more serious vein, William L. Calfee '39, ex-president of the Lampoon warned: "It'll need plenty of lab periods." John S. Stillman '39, newly elected president of the Student Union, speaking unofficially, snorted: "This bourgeosie farce, marriage, must go,--forever...