Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great auditorium of the 817,500,000 palace which Herbert Hoover built for his Department of Commerce was jammed to the doors one day last week. Elbow to elbow sat 2,000 businessmen eager to say their say about whether NRA should permit or forbid price fixing and price control. On the platform presiding over the meeting were Samuel Clay Williams, Chairman of NIRB; Arthur Dare Whiteside and Sidney Hillman, both NIRB members, and their associates...
When, O Boston, will you be freed from the pruriency and bigoted complacency of demagogues to whom the word anachronism means nothing? When will you cease to permit the discouragement of universally acknowledged art? When will you open your theatres to all that is significant and courageous in the modern drama, and thus relegate to their true position the low humor, the trivialisation of the important that you countenance in your burlesque shows? For New England's sterility in the creative arts, censorship such as you tacitly agree to is largely responsible. You have more than merited the charges...
...writer was told that the reason for the new Supreme Court Building was the fact that the old court room would not permit the placing of more than nine judicial chairs in a straight line. Be this as it may, the Court has shown that it still is willing to declare what it believes the law to be, regardless of veiled threats; and pleas from Filene to play ball. F. D. said at Gettysburg that the New Deal could all be accomplished within "the broad and resilient phrases of the Constitution." Maybe he's not so sure...
Although the Committee has received the permission of the college to play two games away during the years 1936-40, it will not take advantage of the permit in 1936. Only one game, the Yale classic, will be played outside of Cambridge...
...Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance was all they would permit. If Hephzibah can be argued out of a concert career her parents will be happier. Says Father Moshe Menuhin: "Catching airplanes, boats and trains, and a continual round of concerts, is no life for a woman...