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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where permanent Jewish courts do not exist, questions of law are decided, as they arise, by rabbis or councils of rabbis. Any Jew may bring a case before the Beth Din; indeed, it is his duty, if he is bothered about a point of the Law. He pays the court what he can and, as a man of faith, accepts its decisions as binding, † When the Beth Din sits (daily except religious holidays), the rabbis wear prayer shawls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Permanent Court | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...LONDON, May 5 (U.P.)-Great Britain informed Moscow today that at present she could not accept Russia's request for a military alliance with Britain and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Other Hand | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...LONDON, May 5 (A.P.)-The British Government today accepted Soviet Russia's proposal to form a British-French-Russian military alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Other Hand | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...wise: The second half of 1939 is expected to see Public Works expenditure decline from its 1938 volume of $880,000,000, offsetting by so much increased armament expenditures. If President Roosevelt decides to balance the budget for the 1940 elections the Government may actually put less money into the public economic pot after the rise in National Defense expenditures than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Missing Boom | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...spending of $2,948,000,000 for defense-44% more than our 1939 bill. To achieve a proportional effect on a five-for-one basis, U. S. arms appropriations would have to be $14,740,000,000 a year. If this discourages businessmen about the prospect of armament, it may also encourage them by the assurance that U. S. National Defense expenditures will not pervert the U. S. to a totalitarian, guns-instead-of-butter economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Missing Boom | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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