Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several months ago John Strachey, brilliant English author and lecturer, said that he saw evidences of Fascism in this country, including a tendency to limit free speech. He now can shout from the housetops that he has proof, for he himself is to be deported. Although the immigration authorities saw no reason to exclude him in December, the official charge suddenly brought against him is that he is a Communist and that he made an "illegal entry...
...Since the Royal person will be indispensable at jubilee observances all summer, doctors busied themselves last week with the 69-year-old King-Emperor who has resolved to exert himself once more to the very limit. Absolute rest until just before the Jubilee was the physicians' prescription. Where to get it? Since George V is adamant in his yearly decision ("I will not go to the French Riviera or anywhere outside of England"), Their Majesties graciously accepted last week the loan of an English mansion, no palace, from the Duke of Devonshire whose wife is Queen Mary...
...road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than 1929. But even for burly, forthright "Pat" Joyce there is a limit to the profits to be taken out of shiny pants. Last week Great Western marched into court, petitioning for a voluntary reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act. Reason: no funds to pay bond interest; no means of borrowing them...
...going on the Hupp payroll at $5 a week for one month. Nothing is deducted from the salesman's or dealer's commission. Later Mr. Andrews expects to employ more of the public "with a consequent wider distribution of salary checks. . . . There is no limit to the number of names that can be sent. And the salaries we will pay will go up in proportion to the number of sales...
First of all, applications to within 80 per cent of the quota limit will be accepted. Secondly, all applications above this limit will receive individual attention from the Committee, and individuals, hesitating between two or more fields, may be guided into the one of these fields where the demand is less...