Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, who attended the Indian Conference in London and arranged the Mutt & Jeff meetings, it was learned that last week the Viceroy: 1) Offered to reverse his previous refusal of St. Gandhi's request that British Indian police "brutality" be investigated, and to lift all restrictions upon the activities of Indian Nationalists providing they cease their mass demonstrations for independence...
Last summer Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman embargoed Russian pulpwood on the ground that it was produced by convict labor. Within a week he was forced to lift the ban for lack of evidence that pulpwood workers of U. S. S. R. were legal convicts (TIME...
Margaret Sanger last week had a second opportunity to beg Congress to lift Federal inhibitions against Birth Control. Senator Frederick Huntington Gillett, 79, Massachusetts, was her friend at court .his time. The other time (1924) her friend was another aged Senator, the late Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa, then 75. Senator Cummins had tried ineffectually to pass a law making contraceptive information and devices available to all the people, a liberty which Mrs. Sanger, a trained nurse, did not altogether approve. Senator Gillett is fostering a law to make such information and devices available only to doctors. If Congress were...
...plot develops around the life of a street singer, Albert, --a life with little moments of greatness and hours of drabness. It is a very conventional story of a man who loved a woman and lost her to his best friend. There is little in this situation to lift it above the American musical comedy, but direction and photography do much to redeem its fragile motivation...
...Lift the yoke that bows the nations...