Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron police "let a nonstriking minority in and out." Actually 85% and better of Goodyear employees were on the job the day following the so-called night of rioting, and the U. R. W. did not declare the disturbance a strike until after the riot had occurred. U. R. W. leadership has since raised hell with its membership for unauthorized stoppages of work, declaring no more will be tolerated...
...Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions-that...
...Congressmen as in the case of this 75th Congress. Never before have we had so many Copperheads-and you will remember it was the Copperheads who, in the days of the War Between the States, tried their best to make Lincoln and his Congress give up the fight, let the nation remain split in two and return to peace-peace at any price...
...preparing an exhibition of his own painting, finishing a semi-autobiographical volume, dropping the oblique, off-hand remarks that distinguish his work far more than its formal arguments. Typical Ozenfant aphorisms: "It is not art that fails, but the artist." "Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary." "Let us once a year . . . enjoy all our rights, including that of not abusing them." "There are 30,000 painters in Paris. Counting one per thousand there are thirty geniuses among them. I must have made a mistake somewhere...
...Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys, could reach a siding to let the limited go through. But without automatic block signals to remind forgetful engineers of orders in their jumper pockets, the Olympian raced past Ingobar. A mile beyond, it cracked head-on into the CCC train, killed one boy, injured 17 others on the two trains...