Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week, a reporter asked Secretary of State Cordell Hull whether the U. S. contemplated altering its policy of refusing officially to recognize Italy's conquest in view of the fact that, at Geneva last week, the League of Nations Council had decided to permit recognition by member nations. The Secretary's reply: "Our policy remains absolutely unchanged...
Mournfully replied Minister of Agriculture William Shepherd Morrison, a protege of Earl Baldwin: "The Ottawa Empire agreements do not permit such a course. The situation may greatly improve if there is rain in the next two weeks." All churches in the diocese of Bristol were ordered to offer prayers for rain. Within 48 hours heavy rains doused almost the whole of the British Isles, the drought was called "definitely broken...
...intellectual slums. The bill, which would appropriate $72,000,000 for Federal aid to education in the coming year and raise the ante to $202,000,000 by 1944, embodies the recommendations of the President's Advisory Committee on Education (TIME, March 7). Because it would permit Federal money to be used for books, bus service and scholarships for pupils in parochial (e.g., Roman Catholic) schools, it is opposed by Catholicophobes, led by Columbia University's Professor George Drayton Strayer. Meanwhile, to drive the bill out of the hostile House committee, the American Federation of Teachers and Progressive...
...Pushed toward Congressional action the first of three proposed emergency laws to help the railroads. Reported favorably by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, this bill would permit RFC to make work-loans to any railroad, with reasonable expectations the only collateral required and without the present necessity for the ICC to certify that the road is not facing reorganization. A bill to create a three-man bankruptcy court for railroads is still being drafted; another permitting land-grant railroads to charge full rates for all Government traffic except Army and. Navy supplies was reported favorably by the Senate Interstate Commerce...
Marking a change in the rules governing the summer athletic activities of members of varsity teams, the Athletic Committee has recently approved of a new interpretation which will permit Crimson team members to represent in athletic organizations for which they are working during the summer, providing they are performing definite jobs related to the business of the organization...